Telangana Ministers! Act Now! Do Your Duty!
(An open letter to the Honorable Ministers from Telangana Region in A.P.Government)
Dear Ministers,
It is an appeal to you on behalf of 4 crore people of Telangana, who are your constituency and are instrumental in sending you to your positions of political power. Verity demands that your allegiance should be to this your constituency for the fulfillment of the legitimate aspirations of these people whom you represent. But it is regrettable to say that in actual practice you are doing diametrically opposite to this. You think that you owe your allegiance to your party high command only and are acting as hand maidens to your Chief Minister.
We do not think that there is need for us to recount the whole saga of Telangana State struggle to you. You know the promise, the betrayal and the repression of your party and your government in that precinct. We would only like to recap to you the callousness of your behavior and its effect, after the betrayal of your high command on the state declaration in Parliament on 9, December 2009, which Telangana people have so onerously achieved. While your counterparts the Andhra Congress had sabotaged the state declaration and blackmailed your high command, you were play acting or falling head over the heels to follow the commands of your high command.
Taking advantage of the subservience, your high command circumnavigated Telangana people with several false hopes and deadlines in the last 3 ½ years with every Parliament session and other trumped up occasion. There was a spate of suicides at the end of every deadline ending the false hope. More than 1200 youth have sacrificed their lives. Your state government of which you are a part have unleashed a political and police oppression to subjugate Telangana Movement. Yet, you were not concerned. You were not only following the diktats of your high command meekly but also were actively supporting your CM in the coercion of your own people. After an unrelenting repression in the last 3 ½ years, Telangana people again are led in to the backwoods of general elections without implementing the state declaration made in the Parliament.
The people of Telangana have now come to realize firmly that more than Andhra politicians’ sabotage the disloyalty of T-Congress is the main reason for not getting Telangana State. In that the role of T-Ministers as part of this government is most significant. You had several opportunities where you could have broken the political log-jam created by andhras in collusion with congress high command. But you did not choose to act. You have frittered away the chances with utter lack of political judgement.The political bankruptcy of your high command also did not help either. The party could have been extricated from the precarious situation if you acted bold forcing the high command to put its foot down in implementing Telangana State declaration resulting in a win-win situation for everybody — the party, your selves and Telangana people.
Andhra congress had blackmailed your high command using its political and financial clout. They had dangled their political numbers for UPA-3 after 2014 elections which was 4 years away and had browbeaten them. Now after more than 3 years we know what has happened to their political numbers. Congress party has come a cropper in all the plentiful by elections in Telangana and Andhra regions. Today the party is a pale shadow of its formidable former self. The near total rout of the party is certain in the ensuing elections.We all know that the single largest factor for the pathetic situation is relentless Telangana struggle and its effect on the administration of the state. Yet paradoxically your high command is still in the throes of Andhra congress blackmail and continues to mislead Telangana people. You and your colleague legislators from Telangana are meekly obliging your high command obsequiously. And the congress party is leading you into the general elections to leave you in the political wilderness for the rest of your life.
You know how the two MPs Jagannatham, Vivek and Keshava Rao, the former MP joining TRS has caused a stir at the national level. Azad was rattled and was making his usual adulterated statements.It has attracted the attention of the core committee. A few national media newspapers have written about it and exhorted UPA government to take a decision.NDTV news channel was wondering if the Congress has messed up the Telengana issue. If other four MPs i.e.Rajiah, Guththa, Ponnam and Yashky did the same it could have created quite a substantial impact. At this stage,If you and all the other T-Congress elements together dare to bell the cat with one united front, it is certainly possible to get the delivery of Telangana State before 2014 elections.
If we review the events since the Parliament declaration, it can be definitely said that, the blood of the 1200 martyrs is on the hands of you and your party. It is a horrendous happening. Such thing had never happened anywhere in the world. The nemesis will catch up sooner than later if you do not make amends for the angst created. The monsoon session of the Parliament is the last chance for you and your high command to make the amends. For the sake of people of Telangana your benefactors, for the sake of your party and for the sake of your own political survival you must make a last ditch effort to get Telangana State bill passed in the ensuing monsoon session of the Parliament.
Telangana people are awaiting your momentous action with an agonizing anxiety. We hope that you will comprehend the historical importance of the issue and strive to be a proud part of it.For, it is your bounden duty to uphold the dignity of democratic aspirations of Telangana people.
Yours sincerely,
A Telanganite
—- J R Janumpalli