SKC Verdict & The Tryst of Telangana!

Sri Krishna Committee, if you go by its terms of reference, legal validity and ‘modus operandi’, its verdict is not very hard to predict. In all probability its yearlong exercise would end up in a fractured judgement with several incongruous options.The principal constituents in the decision making are the Andhra leaders and Congress Party. If we go by their history in the enslavement of Telangana, they will be quick to grab all the farcical options and indulge in their pervert politics, to prolong the agony of Telangana people. Whether it is their innate nature to believe in the honesty of others or naiveté, Telangana people have failed several times to gauge the consequences of their acquiescence over the decisions on Telangana. Though they have a glorious history of valor and sacrifice, they have failed time and again to understand the scheming machinations of Andhra political leadership and Congress Party and had been worst for it.

The scheming andhras are united across all political parties and are doing everything to subjugate Telangana, one more time. In addition to their political numbers, they have more money power than any time before to influence the decisions. The Congress Party in the past after knowing the consequences fully well have sold Telangana to andhras, despite their being all powerful to override andhras. Now Congress Party needs more of their money and more of their political numbers. The upcoming fractured verdict of SKC will likely be another chance for Congress party and andhras to play yet another episode of their perverted politics. The behavior and attitude of the A P government and Andhra MPs and MLAs during the period after 9^th December, is a clear indication in this direction. There does not appear any appreciable change of heart in Congress High Command either.

Even today, after knowing such a monumental ‘organized exploitation’ in vivid detail, Telangana political leadership is fractured in their demand for ‘demerger’ of the state. Apparently they did not learn anything from the past lessons. Once again they are exhibiting their political naiveté and playing right in to the hands of scheming andhras and Congress Party. The opportunism and sycophancy of Telangana congress leadership, the rabid party politics of Telangana TDP leaders, and the personal animosities of Telangana rebel fronts all are creating a situation rife for another bout of political gamesmanship. These factors are trying to undermine the good work done by TRS, JACs, Students and other Peoples organizations, during the last one year. Telangana people have missed the boat several times in the past, because of political naiveté of its leaders. The behavior of our political leadership after 9^th December, 2009 once again proved this. If Telangana Congress Party and TDP leadership had stood by TRS and other Organizations, in the aftermath of 9^th December, Telangana people would have achieved their separate state by now.

Congress has come to announce the process of initiating Telangana State under tremendous pressure from Telangana people. As usual our political leadership baulked at the opportune moment, gave another chance for protracting the agony of Telangana people. Everybody knows that SKC was a delaying tactic by Congress High Command, to dilute ‘Telangana Struggle’ at the behest of Andhra congress leadership and probe the pros and cons of the party’s future prospects. On the otherside TDP played most macabre politics, during this one year making a mockery of politics in Telangana. TRS and JACs, though they are skeptical about the verdict of SKC  in keeping with the traditions of Telangana they played along with the Center, hoping that truth will prevail in the end.  Thanks are due to them for keeping the struggle and hopes of Telangana people alive.

Whatever has happened earlier, now taking cue from the past, the Telangana political leadership should know that nothing short of total united front of all the political parties and peoples organizations of the region will be a challenge enough to the seasoned political gamesmanship of andhras and Congress high command. Therefore, all the political forces in Telangana region should forget their differences and come together to fight the ‘political game’ in the aftermath of SKC verdict, so that Telangana people will not miss the boat yet again. The pluralism, political opportunities, party politics, personal animosities etc., can wait till we get a state of our own to fight for them. If we ignore this and indulge in the internecine squabbles and present a divided front, we are likely to lose the game this time around too.

The JACS and other Peoples organizations have played a special role in bringing the present struggle to such a new height. They have the potential to propel the struggle on their own, if the situation demands it. If the political leadership does not rise to the occasion, the peoples organizations should wrest the initiative with a united front and should fight for the separate state, as never done before, making the recalcitrant political parties irrelevant. The situation is rife for that eventuality and they should be prepared for that. All the Telangana people should realize that there is no scope for going back from here. If we go back, it will be a ‘Harakiri’ and we will be living in our own land as third class citizens. This is now or never, for Telangana people to meet their tryst with the destiny of separate Telangana.