Separation of Telangana - Why Blame Now?

I am against the division of AP that is taking place currently and is now almost a reality with Lok Sabha passing the bill yesterday. Like any other Andhraite, I too would blame Congress and BJP for the separation of Telangana, but a look at the happenings in AP right from 1950s would place the blame squarely on the rulers of AP especially in the last two decades.

Let us take a quick bite of the past: 

1.     Everybody knows that Telangana agitation is not a recent phenomenon and K Chandrasekhara Rao and Telangana Rashtra Samithi do not have proprietary rights on the same.

2.     A look at the history will tell us that Telangana was part of the erstwhile Hyderabad state with 9 Telugu speaking districts of Telangana, 4 Kannada districts in Gulbarga division and 4 Marathi speaking districts in Aurangabad division.

3.     Ranga Reddy District was carved out of Hyderbad distirct in 1978.
4.     Telugu speaking people were spread in 22 districts and Andhra state(Telangana not included) was formed with Kurnool as its capital in 1953.

5.     The agreement to merge Telangana with Andhra was incidentally reached on 20th February 1956. (KCR was born on 17th February 1954)

6.     On 1st November 1956, Andhra Pradesh was formed by merging Telangana with Andhra state. This happened due to lobbying from Andhra congress leaders and pressure from central leadership of Congress though some of the Telangana leaders at that time were against the merger. 

7.     Telangana agitation arose in 1969 as students felt betrayed.

8.     When late N T Rama Rao floated Telugu Desam Party, KCR contested on TDP ticket for the Legislative Assembly but lost the election. He was however successfully elected from Siddipet constituency in 1985, 1989, 1994 and 1999. 

9.     He floated TRS in April 2001 with the single-point agenda of creating Telangana state with Hyderabad as its capital. 

10. He was elected as MP from Karimnagar LS constituency in 2004 and from Mahbubnagar LS constituency in 2009.

Now, a few questions to our AP 'leaders' and 'rulers':

1.     They knew that Telangana is a perennial problem subject since 1969, then why did they develop ONLY Hyderabad and ignore other parts of AP?

2.     Was Chandrababu Naidu in anyway responsible(after he usurped power from late NTR) for KCR going out of TDP and floating TRS?

3.     CBN keeps repeating that he was responsible for the tremendous growth of software in Hyderabad, why was he not able create a similar scenario in one or two more cities of AP? (Look at what Maharashtra and Karnataka have done on this subject)

4.     Since 2004, Congress has been in power in AP, what steps did they take to see that there was all round development in AP? Even if they had developed two or three coastal cities like Kakinada, Ongole, Nellore or Rayalaseema cities like Kurnool, Anantapur or Cuddapah, Seemandhra would have been better placed today. Why did they not do it? What prevented Congress government from doing so? 

5.     In the same way, developing other Telangana towns like Adilabad, Karimnagar, Nizamabad and Nalgonda would have assuaged the feelings of Telangana people weakening TRS. Why were no attempts made in this direction?

There are so many other questions but the answer to all of them will be the same. They had put all their eggs( their own businesses and ill-gotten wealth) in one basket(Hyderabad) and only they know which other places. Their respective constituencies were only looked upon as vote banks and nothing else. Most of the time was spent in Hyderabad/New Delhi with least interest in developing the state or their constituencies.

We are witnessing the result of their lackadaisical attitude which is separation of Telangana from AP. So what is the point now in blaming individuals or parties? While Telangana movement was in full swing, Seemandhra people have not demanded results and growth from their elected representatives and are paying a heavy price today for the same. 

At least now, wake up! Please!!!