Chairman Mao had said, “Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.” Well, in Telangana, politics is definitely 
about shedding blood. In the latest bout of suicides, as many as three dozen youths laid down their lives in an apparent fillip to Telangana’s claim for statehood. Garnering maximum television footage, TRS supremo K. Chandrasekhara Rao (KCR), the biggest apparent champion of the cause, shed tears remembering the latest martyrs. Ironically, the viewers are sceptical of the credibility of his tears. In the six decades of struggle for a separate Telangana, KCR is not the first leader to be distrusted but definitely the latest.
“He, I suppose, is the luckiest politician of the times. Whenever his integrity is at stake, the Congress, of course unintentionally, comes to his rescue. He owes much to our party,” a vexed Congress leader quipped in distress.
The leader’s reference was to the hasty and imprudent announcement of the Union home minister P. Chidambaram in favour of a separate Telangana. AICC spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed’s ‘confessions’, on the run-up to the announcement, before the media in New Delhi, further augmented the waned glory of KCR. According to Ahmed, the precarious situation prevailing in Telangana with TRS chief KCR’s fast entering the 11th day, propelled the UPA government to issue the midnight statement.
The Union home minister’s announcement led to a constitutional crisis in Andhra Pradesh, as 143 MLAs of coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema, cutting across party lines, made a beeline before the Speaker with resignation letters. Normal life in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema has been paralysed ever since. Meanwhile, the comments of Ahmed vindicated the obvious ‘pressure’ under which Chidambaram made the announcement. Thus, he spilled the beans before a dozen disparate stakeholders in a new map of India. The message was to shun mere crying but to pick up the kitchen knife threatening either murder or suicide.
The late Congress chief minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, managed to keep the Telangana issue from boiling over through a policy of carrot and stick. TRS broke its alliance with the Congress in 2006. TRS was headed for a spilt and its members were caught in scandals and criminal cases. TRS fared poorly in the by-polls which followed the mass resignations by its MPs and MLAs. The party came a cropper again in the 2009 general elections despite its ‘opportunistic’ grand alliance with TDP and Left parties.
“He had not even mustered enough courage to contest the Greater Hyderabad civic body elections last month. But, our party arrived to his rescue and helped him rise like a phoenix from the ashes,” the Congress leader scoffs.
“The Telangana agitation in 1969 was started by the people of the region when they felt that the Andhra leaders had flouted the Gentlemen's Agreement, worked out during the merger of Andhra state and Telangana region in Hyderabad state. The supreme sacrifice of 400 glorious fighters went in vain after Telangana leaders like Marri Chenna Reddy fished in troubled waters,” Rajaiah of Telangana Writers’ Forum tells TSI. With the newly launched Telangana Praja Samithi (TPS), Reddy romped home during 1971 general elections with 10 Lok Sabha seats out of the 14 from Telangana. But TPS merged with the Congress. After assuming office of the sixth chief minister of Andhra Pradesh in March, 1978, Chenna Reddy announced that a separate Telangana was no longer an issue.
about shedding blood. In the latest bout of suicides, as many as three dozen youths laid down their lives in an apparent fillip to Telangana’s claim for statehood. Garnering maximum television footage, TRS supremo K. Chandrasekhara Rao (KCR), the biggest apparent champion of the cause, shed tears remembering the latest martyrs. Ironically, the viewers are sceptical of the credibility of his tears. In the six decades of struggle for a separate Telangana, KCR is not the first leader to be distrusted but definitely the latest.“He, I suppose, is the luckiest politician of the times. Whenever his integrity is at stake, the Congress, of course unintentionally, comes to his rescue. He owes much to our party,” a vexed Congress leader quipped in distress.
The leader’s reference was to the hasty and imprudent announcement of the Union home minister P. Chidambaram in favour of a separate Telangana. AICC spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed’s ‘confessions’, on the run-up to the announcement, before the media in New Delhi, further augmented the waned glory of KCR. According to Ahmed, the precarious situation prevailing in Telangana with TRS chief KCR’s fast entering the 11th day, propelled the UPA government to issue the midnight statement.
The Union home minister’s announcement led to a constitutional crisis in Andhra Pradesh, as 143 MLAs of coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema, cutting across party lines, made a beeline before the Speaker with resignation letters. Normal life in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema has been paralysed ever since. Meanwhile, the comments of Ahmed vindicated the obvious ‘pressure’ under which Chidambaram made the announcement. Thus, he spilled the beans before a dozen disparate stakeholders in a new map of India. The message was to shun mere crying but to pick up the kitchen knife threatening either murder or suicide.
The late Congress chief minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, managed to keep the Telangana issue from boiling over through a policy of carrot and stick. TRS broke its alliance with the Congress in 2006. TRS was headed for a spilt and its members were caught in scandals and criminal cases. TRS fared poorly in the by-polls which followed the mass resignations by its MPs and MLAs. The party came a cropper again in the 2009 general elections despite its ‘opportunistic’ grand alliance with TDP and Left parties.
“He had not even mustered enough courage to contest the Greater Hyderabad civic body elections last month. But, our party arrived to his rescue and helped him rise like a phoenix from the ashes,” the Congress leader scoffs.
“The Telangana agitation in 1969 was started by the people of the region when they felt that the Andhra leaders had flouted the Gentlemen's Agreement, worked out during the merger of Andhra state and Telangana region in Hyderabad state. The supreme sacrifice of 400 glorious fighters went in vain after Telangana leaders like Marri Chenna Reddy fished in troubled waters,” Rajaiah of Telangana Writers’ Forum tells TSI. With the newly launched Telangana Praja Samithi (TPS), Reddy romped home during 1971 general elections with 10 Lok Sabha seats out of the 14 from Telangana. But TPS merged with the Congress. After assuming office of the sixth chief minister of Andhra Pradesh in March, 1978, Chenna Reddy announced that a separate Telangana was no longer an issue.
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