“Telangana or no Telangana, business goes on as it must,” said a car dealer when asked about the chances of his business suffering losses due to the separate statehood agitation.
This gentleman, one of the leading dealers in the automobiles industry maintained that Telangana or no Telangana the ‘business goes on and on, no matter what the threat to the stability or any agitation which may rock the city or the state. “The trading community, after so much investment, can hardly afford to rely on politics or stability or any external help. What we look out for is – the customer who can give us business” he said.
Perhaps keeping the political turmoil under wraps, the big business houses seem to have turned pragmatic, especially as the economic activity turned more or less brisk. Clear evidence to prove this was the fact that car sales shot up in the recent past, a good and welcome signal from the business point of view.
One of the prominent pragmatic car dealers too was all praise of the customers while declaring that the sale of four wheelers has risen by 25 to 30 percent. He also claimed to have seen several agitations but they hardly mattered as the people grew wary of such politically motivated issues.
True, the man most affected or disturbed had been the commoner and daily wage earners on the roads or by-lanes, he said. “What we need is the ‘bread’ for the day,” a vendor was quoted by a policeman as saying.
Days roll on, time progresses for all and even lower middle classes but for a man on the road life is different.
There is some sense in what the car dealer had said. By far, going by the current standards the political outfits have been preoccupied by their own prospects and Floor crossings unmindful of the actual suffering inherited by the poor, whether urban BPL families or rural borrowers living under constant pressure.
However, the instability factor has adversely affected the Special Economic zones which were set up to set the ball rolling on the economic front.
The Telangana stir has turned the tables specifically in the case of IT companies. Over 30 IT firms in 47 SEZs incurred the wrath of Telangana stir. Much more, the IT companies which were part of the SEZ as well, tasted the bitter pill of Telangana stir.
After November 1, 1956 a phenomenal investment had gone into developing the infrastructure among others and the real estate graph showed such a trend that the whole city was being referred to as a ‘concrete jungle’.
Realtors’ dream came more or less to an end or their business slumped what with the ‘global meltdown’ overtaking their prospects.
Less said the better about the settlers who grew by leaps and bounds.
A part of the GHMC and the city’s outskirts were being swarmed by the settlers. Today they are a content lot as well as the Nizam’s Firman (Mulki Rule) stands by them.
A rational migrant pointed out that most of the people from Andhra region were influenced by the British regime.
It was a blessing in disguise as they chose English after their mother tongue. To mention most of the Anglo-Indians stayed back in the Andhra region for various reasons which induced the locals to keep pace with the trend. Those hailing from Andhra learnt the ‘art’ of maintaining the discipline or diction.
Compared to this region, that region had been politically more conscious and they never hesitated to pull their local leader if his representation failed in any respect. The live example is the election of Lok Satta Leader Jayaprakash Narayan from Kukatpally Assembly constituency, which is considered as ‘Migrants’ Andhra.’
As may be seen, just to quote one example, most of the anchors or announcers or analysts posts on the little screen were being cornered by those hailing from Andhra. Why have Telanganaites distanced themselves from that slot? It is here that our ‘Mulki’ did not play any role, asserted an anchor.
INN