A good majority might call " Potti Sriramulu " the 'Father of Regionalism in India', but in reality it is the weak leaders who succumb to such pressure tactic's, are the one's to be blamed. Had Jawahar Lal Nehru been a leader enough to take a bold decision , an India divided on linguistic basis , burdened by Regional politics and coalition government would have been a distant dream. All who argue that the move to divide India on linguistic basis could be justified on the grounds of 'Culture Preservation' and 'Ease of Administration', should remember one fact that India is a land which boasts equality and equality for all the 1652 dialect speaking citizens of India mean an India divided into more than 1000 fragments which is obviously against the view of an easily administrable territory,even if you forget the challenges each fragment is going to pose towards national integration.
The UPA II is now repeating the same mistake with it's decision to grant a separate 'Telengana'. It is extremely sad that the union government took the decision with only on coming lokhsabha elections in mind.If the government had any intention of sorting this matter peacefully, it would have first took an initiative to sort out the problems associated with splitting a state, like decisions about state capital,dividing the water resources etc. If we allow UPA to wash her hands off the blood that will soon be shed on the issue following this irresponsible act, sooner or later we will see statues of Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan singh adorning the streets of all major cities of India, just like Jawahar Lal Nehru is smiling at us now. Again , 50 years later there will be people who will blame it all upon Chandrashekar Rao. No one would then remember the fact that current UPA government , totally left it for the next government at the centre to make any major decisions regarding splitting up a state.
Every educated Indian is aware that tax money from entire Andhra was used in transforming Hyderabad into the metro that it is today and is not a fair deal to leave the new state to build from scratch. With so many on-going disputes as example's including Kerala-Tamil Nadu fight over Mullaperiyar issue, one can only call it a careful carelessness from the part of central government to not take any decisions regarding sharing of water resources from Krishna & Godavari between the two new 'to be formed' states. The current UPA leadership is to be held responsible for all the regional tensions and bloodshed that are soon to follow this extreme blunder.
What the Government should do now is exactly what should have been done in the case of Bal Thackeray and MNS. Why hesitate now, when there are no hesitations regarding Maoists? Aren't both threat to National Integration? Or Does it says so in constitution of India, that 'Bigger Sharks' should be allowed to escape?
Rise-oh-rise, those of you who wore black dots for the 'Delhi Girl' ,Come change your Facebook dp's for a united Andhra!
