Should Telengana be given separate statehood?

Let us see some non-sense arguements put up by people who oppose it..:

1. "Telangana" results in disintegration of india !!

 oo really!!, when has it become issue of national security or intigrity? The core demand of telangana movement is to pass bill in parliament. Isnt that democratic enough. Assumption that other regions seeking statehood would burn neglects the facts that nothing of much relevance has happened in 2000/2001 except the formation of TRS. If claim for telangana is false, then TRS would not have survived for 12 years. just think...

2. economic survivability of the region.

this point was argued till 2009-10 by people opposing telangana movement that telangana would not survive without andhra!! in aspects of food, economy and whatever sector you mention!!
They seem to get enough explanation and now no more arguing this point. rather they switched to other claims which are not so technical. this can be said as victory by intellectuals in telangana who asserted that telangana would be more prosperous than andhra.

3. Hyderabad belongs to seemandhra!!

will you please look at the map? It is 300 km away from andhra-telangana border. With this claim it is clear that pro-united-AP people are actually not pro to unity  and they are more intrested in "property sharing"(grabing). all non-sense they make up with title "UNITY" was just a set-up by these people.
Stats clearly show that Telangana region pays more taxes than other region and Andhra region consumes more govt funds and foreign loans. by this way Telangana can claim your cities and Andhra can forget about hyderabad. the claim that Andhra individual have developed the whole city is pure non-sense. andhra people could have done that in vizag or vijayawada or guntur or whereever. donot forget that hyd was chosen as capital of ap because it is already a capital and one of the most prosperous in country. merger of telangana itself was done to save andhra from its economic crisis. the merger was opposed in SRC report. but compromise was struck with gentlemen's agreement whose continuous breech is root cause of telangana movement[and not KCR]. state divisions will be purely geographical.

4. Telangana is artificial movement. one that is created by KCR!!

epic nonsense. If it is artificial, this movement would have lost for more than a decade at max. obviously, nobody would waste time having online discussions.
FYI movement was there before KCR. enough explained.

5. Andhra people would lose rights in Telangana[HYD]

This is an artificial fear. rights are guaranteed by centre and not influenced by state. every indian have (almost)all relevant rights equally in any place in india. one thing they would loose is political support for business man (this too in worse case) and that is the main root-cause for anti-Telangana claims. Main aim of T-movement is to eliminate political interference from andhra in telangana.

RIGHT SAID

Dividing the nation in name of religion or language is not good, but the mistake is already made by our previous generation and it might be too difficul too turn it around. However, be it Telangana or a separate statet in other part of the country, it is fine to have manageable size of a region. Let's take the case of Maharashtra, it is a big state, But if you see the development much of Vidharbh region is underdeveloped compared to its western counterpart. I think it makes sense to have a region which can be managed and focussed effort could be taken to develop that region. Small cities like Rapiur/Bilaspur in Chhatsigarh saw more development after becoming a separate state, than what it had seen for long time since part of the greater Madhay Pradesh state.

dividing makes the country ununite then what about the zarkaand we should think about the problems what they are facing, then decide what we have to do..

so i think if population is so high that they are not getting all required things then we have to think about the division only...

so i think division dont effect on unity and it may help to make it better

adidam has given a thinking answer..

unity is possible when we have unified minds of local populace..

indians cannot have a consensus in the house ..so indian consensus is a utopia ..

As of what I have come to know about the tussle between the people of the two parts of states, people of Telangana origin have been treated as step sons in their own region, which was even pointed out in the preliminary findings of the first committee set up for the advising the formation of Indian states. The protests all along since 1956 have vindicated that belief to be true.

The vested interests of the people of the rest of the state should not be allowed to be hindrance in the formation of Telangana, and its formation would be a just way of giving back the control of the state to the people of the Telangana origin.

Thank you so much to Mr. Sharth Chandra Reddy for your simple clarification on Telangana. At least the people who are staying outside the state can understand the basic problem. the great olympic chanpion 'Mr Rajagopal, MP Vijayawada' should know how they merged the Telangana in Andhra in 1956, and still they misleading the Telangana people making false statements.

Before making centre statement, nobody coe forward and tell any thing( the great C andhra leaders). And today they know they are loosing the charm of andhra and food thats way taking about united andhra. Today only they realised that telangana is our brother, thats way they saying about mutual talks regarding problems and issues.

Rcently  lot of surveys shows that small states growth is more than the bigger states. Particularly in case of chattishgarh, Jarkhand and Uttarakhand states grwoth rate is more than Indian growth rate and double their parent state.

zia depends what is good :: centralisation or decentralisation ...:::::

after the disintegration of USSR ...............hazy images ..

Yes, i too support for separate hood of Telengana. As just because of KCR/someone making mess, its a heartful intention of ever Telengana citizen Yes, that we need a seperate state to rule overselves...

There is lot of talk about unity of nation and disintegartion, and the whole thing about smaller states is projected as anti national activity. Pity!!! If the argument on above lines makes any sense, then why all the existing states should continue, ??? Another person goes one state ahead and say that not only Telngana but no other small state should be given as if he knows the local conditions of all these places thoroughly!

There are administrative conveniences, leave alone emotional, cultural, social and economic issues. Even a person like Abdul Kalam endorsed fromation of smaller states. Imagine a person in remote corner of MP travelling to Bhopal since it is a capital city, and imagine a person in remote place of UP travellingto Lucknow!!!

Definitely, politicians my be trying to exploit the sentiments, but that does not mean people don't want smaller states. Today in one TV channel, one celebrity sports person says she does not want formation of Telangana, because she does not feel it good it to say she stays in Telangana!! She forgets that the vegetables she eats every day are coming from the poor Telangana farmers! This sort of humiliation is one of the strong causes for the demands of smaller states. 

People who are not from Telangana, and they are not even from AP (perhaps they did not even visit AP once) start making rubbish comments. Please avoid.

yes,there is no problem if it is given as seperate statehood.it is not at all a problem of disintegration..

Mr Himanshu, nice to see your responses. First of all, my apologies for being little harsh in my communication. I completely agree with your responses. I would like to give couple of clarifications:

1. Telangana movement was there ever since combined state was formed. In 1969, the movement was very strong, about 69 people died, but due to the unfortunate politics by Congress, the local congress leader Mr Chenna Reddy compromised this movement for his chief misnistership.

2. Though the urge for separate Telangana existed, it could not emerge strongly till KCR started the poilitical outfit TRS, a decade ago.

3. KCR is yet another political leader, no doubts about it! No one trusts him, but the credit of giving a new lease of life to this movement goes to him!!

4. For the past 9 years, KCR was waging a political battle. It would have been successful, but for his foolish, inconsistent and selfish political moves. Having said this, KCR did good amount of lobbying, he respected Telangana instellectuals' opinions (blessing in disguise).

5. There is a background for the movement in the past 10 days. KCR lead this political movement, absolutely without any violence. During 2004 general elections, congress had alliance with TRS, and both the parties won with thumping majority. After this, courtesy KCR's efforts, Pranab Mukherjee's committee was formed.

6. Barring CPM, almost all the political parties gave their supporting letters to Pranab's committe!!! Till date, Congress is the only party which did not mention its stand. Respecting sentiment & respecting consensus from political parties, had congress started the state formation exercise, the split of AP would have been very very cordial. Till 10 days back, people of all regions in AP had excellent cordial relatioships.

7. Congress, as usual, played politics with the issue with the support from the ex CM YSR. It is in this context that KCR anounced his fast-unto-death (there are surely his existential motives for this).

8. Even this fast-unto-death was handled by the govt like an extremist issue by deploying unimaginable paramiliatry forces. In this backdrop, students of Universities formed joint action committees, and the movement is no more in the hands of TRS or KCR!!! To illustrate this, these students for the ones who burnt effigies of KCR when there were rumours that KCR has withdrawn from the fast-unto-death programme.

9. When students entered the movement, once again govt deployed the entire university campus with grey hound police forces. In this context, students got agitated.

10. As you said, unfortunately some people committed suicide. Though the Telangana intellectuals, students, KCR appealed to public, emotions of these public succeded.

11. One good thing about KCR as on today is that he is continuing his fast, in spite of the fact that his life is at a dangerous stage. True, his life is at a very dangerous stage, but he is continuing his fast. None of the Congress leaders from centre did not do any effort to save him!!!

I just wanted to give the backdrop of the deaths and today's movement. I feel the dubious attitude of Congress is the only reason for today's situation. Having said this, I feel the movement should not have gone into students' hands, since it is difficult to control the happenings of the movement. I would like to add that there were lots of good things Telangana people have learnt from Coastal Andhra people, and in general, the people of both the sides are cordial to each other!!!

Hyderabad cant be compared with  remaining telangana region that as hyd is developed ,other region can also be developed easily ...if you are ready to tour telengana ..just only one dist you only will accept 1005 it is required

if lives of those who are residing in that area is improved by separate statehood then its should be given a green flag ..i hope , people those who  involved  themselves with protest so zealously will show similar response in coming up with ways to improve condition of infrastructure ,basic human amenities ,educational facilities ,et al...

Politics apart, smaller states are needed for better administration. Look at the public transport in AP which is a shame for such a large state. Large territories go unattended and there is no real development in much of the state far away from Hyderabad. When all political parties support separate Telanga why should Congress want to delay it? Now parties will start claiming credit so they start the delay tactics to score over others.

i think this is a fair demand.. but i think telengana should put forward an agenda about the developments that can be done if separated , which will encourage more people to know exactly the prospect of telengana. but keeping in mind states like jharkhand uttarakhand after separation there hasnt been much of any developments(correct me if i am wrong). keeping this in mind lets for the best.

latest developments is that rayalaseema leader now are stating incase of a separate telengana being formed rayalaseema should also be separated with hyderabad as its capital(for the fact that they sacrificed kurnool as capital to hyderabad in the past).

Who the people not visisted telangana districts/cities wil talk like its a political drama. For all opposing people I request to visit once the cities of telangana other than hyderabad. And also visit visag, vijayawada, karnul like other cities. I hope the truth will understand why the telangana people demanding separate statehood.

Mr Himanshu Pathak, it seems you are in the field of journalism, and your arguments don't reflect any quality. I don't want to get into the argument as to why this demand exists, and whether this demand is genuine or not. This debate and your argument shows your utter lack of understanding of the subject and you should have entered into this sensitive debate.

Telangana movement is not pertaining to KCR, please remember that. There are intellectuals in this movement. For your information, one of the TC channels has openly delcared it support to Telangana!!! The backbone of this movement is Retired Vice Chancellor Prof Jayashankar. You may try to approach him and talk to him before making such statements. I am sorry if my remarks are harsh, but this movement has got a history, and unless you go deep into this subject and unless you interact with cross section of the public, outsider cannot understand it.

You make a statement that majority of people in Andhra Pradesh are agaisnt to formation of Telangana!!! Ridiculous!!! This doesn't make any sense. How do you expect people outside Telangana, but within A.P., to support separate Telangana? A very cheap discussion on a sensitive subject!!!

Majority of the particiapants in this site are from well paid corporate jobs, and it is difficult for us to understand the cultural, social and economic aspects involved. Appreciate if you can understand.

it is a fact that smaller states do well compared to the big states. going by that ..creating a telegana state should not be a bad idea. but it shud be run by an able leader.. those who r leading the movement right now, seem to be interested in power po;itics.