Vijayawada, August 08: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) today felt that the demand for Telangana as a separate state has got a fillip only after the UPA government at the centre had given the consent in response to the hunger strike by TRS President K Chandrasekhara Rao in December 2009.
However, faced with the counter movement for a united Andhra, the Centre has ”backtracked and set up the commission headed by Justice Krishna to look into the demand”, the party said in its draft political resoultion, which was circulated to the media here.
The party said, ”the hasty stand of the centre has led to the revival of demands for separate states in various parts of the country and it has taken a consistent stand on the issue.” ”The party is against the break up of the linguistic reorganized states which were created after a mass democratic movement…the creation of smaller states by breaking up the biggest states will be harmful for the federal set up”, it pointed out.
The resolution said these states will be more dependent on the Centre.
Further, many of the smaller states will easily fall prey to the exploitation of big business houses and multinational corporations.
Where there are backward regions in the state, special measures should be adopted for the socio-economic development of that area.
The resoultion also said apart from the demand for separate states, the forces of regional chauvinism are raising the slogan of ”sons of the soil” and targeting outsiders. In Maharashtra, the MNS and the Shiv Sena compete in the ”Maharashtra for Maharashtrians” demand. They have targeted North Indian residing and living in Mumbai and other cities. Some of the extremist groups in Assam, Manipur and other places in the North East have also attacked Hindi-speaking migrant labour and such chauvinism has to be countered.
The left and democratic forces must champion the unity of all sections of the working people against such divisive chauvinism.
–UNI