Hyderabad,february 04:THE UPA government has announced the mechanism for resolving the Telangana crisis, but it has already led to caste conflict among Telangana Congress leaders.
The conflict is between the powerful Reddy community on one side and the backward classes on the other. Both the groups are trying to outwit each other and gain the upper hand in the ongoing Telangana agitation, so that they could stake claim for power in the event of the formation of a separate state.
Reddy were never genuinly interested in Telangana as thet forsee the downfall of reddy community and emergence of strong BC lobby.
Reddy have taken the support of MIM which plays an important part and only reddy can pump in the money to satisfy MIM bosses whose only interest is making money out of crises.
Till now rajshekar reddy was the adopted father of MIM bosses but after his death MIM was feeling lonely and fatherless but thanks to resergent telangana movement all the billioner turned politicians from andhra area are looking towards MIM to bring the muslim community as a hurdle in formation of telangana .
Right from the beginning, leaders belonging to backward classes and scheduled castes have been in the forefront of the Telangana movement as far as the Congress is concerned. There has been a general impression among the people of the region that the Reddy community ditched the separate Telangana cause, especially after former chief minister Dr Marri Channa Reddy “ betrayed” the historic 1969 Telangana movement by succumbing to the anti- Telangana forces. In 1996, too, former home minister P Indra Reddy, revived the movement and later dumped it to join the Congress party.
After the revival of the Telangana movement in 2001 by Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhara Rao, the backward class leaders of the Congress found it an opportunity to gain supremacy in the party.
Leaders like K Kesava Rao, V Hanumantha Rao and D Srinivas, besides veteran Dalit leader G Venkatswamy played a key role in convincing the high command to take a pro-Telangana stand and have an electoral understanding with the TRS in 2004, as a result of which the Congress made major gains in the region. A few Reddy leaders like V Purushottam Reddy and P Goverdhan Reddy, too, would raise their voice in support of Telangana, but their voices were too feeble to be heard in the presence of then chief minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.
With the sudden demise of YSR in a tragic helicopter crash in September 2009, the Telangana movement got resurrected with an unprecedented force and it has now reached a stage where the Centre is compelled to take a decision on the separate statehood issue.
The latest developments have suddenly woken up the Reddy community from slumber. Leaders like K Jana Reddy, R Damodar Reddy, K Venkat Reddy and T Jeevan Reddy, who did not dare raise their voice in support of Telangana when YSR was alive, have started taking an active part in the Telangana movement, pushing the backward class and SC leaders to the backbenches. Jana Reddy and Damodar Reddy were instrumental in forming the Telangana Joint Action Committee of all political parties with Prof M Kodandaram as its convenor.