Demand for separate state has intensified from last 10 years and every party in Andra Pradesh have supported the cause to get the votes. But none of the parties were willing to implement the same. And since there were lot of opposition in the center and at the state level, the creation of
separate state never happened and TSR party who's main agenda was to create separate state was waiting for any opportinuity.
In year 2008, things changed drastically, congress got full majority in both center and in the Andra assembly polls. YSR who was not in favour of separate state, he controlled all this opposition and TSR which had lost many seats was not able to do any thing.
But in year 2009 YSR died in a unfortunate tragic event. After YSR's death, the Telengana issue started to come up and TSR chief, Rama raju, i guess must have met congress president sonia gandhi.
He surprisingly started to fast and got, lot of media attension. And suddenly after 10 days of fasting Home minister of congress makes an announcement that Indian government is going to start the process of forming Telengana. This announcement created sudden shock in the minds of Andhra people, MLA and MPs.
Most of the MLA and MPs started to resign because congress president did not have the consent of the elected MLA and MPs from Andhra. one could easily build an consipracy theory of death of YSR to TSR's fasting and then announcement of separate State in haste.
Conspiracy theory apart, lets look at issue of creating smaller state.
How should any country must divide regions into states ?
One can consider different parameters such a Area, Population, Language, Per capita income, male/female ratio, literacy rate, culture, Political presence(number of seats), consent from the people, smooth transition and many dependent and independent factors.
Balanced states, Any country must have states which are balanced with each other when compared on above parameters. Lesser representation of above parameters can make the one state more dominant than the other and will not be good for country's politics. India in earlier days had UP as the single largest state and it represented 80 seats at the center and congress would sweep all the 80 seats from on single state and easliy used to get the majority at the center.
similar was the case with the Bhiar & West Bengal. States like Mahrastra,MP,Tamil Nadu,AP and few others stood at 2 spot in representation. States like karnataka, Orissa, Kerala, North easter states have lesser representation and their voices hardly get heard in the parliament. So i feel balanced states approach will make the county to grow in homogenous way.
Moderate and tolerent states - India is always tolerant and modreate state, but we get to hear abberation sometimes. Getting over these abberation makes the states good and prosper. And India will emerage truly as domecratic state.
Spliting states based on culture and age old region would only make the state suffer from development and create lot of groupisim and therefore more intrastate conflicts might occur. I do agree that politicians are taking advantage of religionalism and community as a differentiator to win election, but in the globalised era, they will not be able to take it further becuase of lot of awareness among people.
Taking specifically about Teleangana, i have very little doubt about the its growth because when it cannot grow when it was unified the it will not grow individually.
more politicians and political parties would get created in the process of creating new states. Representation at the center will be very less and both Andhra and Teleangana will suffer because they would not support for any cause together. It would be good for other states. Larger population of Andhra and Teleanga will suffer where as smaller set of people such as politicians, burecarts , few govt Employees would be benefitted.
Is it necessary to create a state to benefit a small section of people or it is ok to have a mulitcultured soceity which lives as tolorent, modorate soceity.
United states is progessing because it is the most tolorent and fair soceity. Every body in US live as tolorent, modorate and compete in fair manner with other soceity people.
Andhar pradesh needs to learn to live united and move towards becoming moderate and tolerant soceity rather than separating themselves.
Creating separate states will lead to long lasting feudalism, and might become counter productive to each other. British who ruled India used the rule of divide and rule and even after 60 years of independence if our people do not understand the concept of unification progress. Then it is really alarming to the society.
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