Hyderabad, April 10: Apprehending that formation of separate telangana State could lead to serious problems at both the regional and national level, late YSR’s brother and MLC YS Vivekananda Reddy requested the B N Srikrishna Committee to recommend the Centre to preserve the `unity and integrity’ of the State and to save the pride of the people of Andhra Pradesh.
Releasing a copy of the 15-page report submitted by him to the Srikrishna Committee through e-mail and fax today, Vivekananda Reddy, told media persons in the Assembly premises today, that the State could be divided after all the cities in the State were developed on par with Hyderabad and completion of all irrigation projects proposed under the Jalayagnam programme. Need of the hour was to accelerate uniform, balanced and sustainable growth, and promote equity and opportunities in the districts which were relatively backward in all the three regions of Andhra Pradesh, and not for carving out a new state. The statehood supporters who have failed to prove that the region was backward have now started demanding to have `self-rule’, he remarked.
Replying to a query, Reddy feared about rise of river water disputes and Jurala project becoming another Almatti, and `telangana’ to become another Karnataka and Maharashtra if the State was bifurcated. “With a separate state, the water issues will get more complicated and may lead to some unforeseen circumstances and water wars between the people. Jalayagnam programme will not get materialized and the projects may leave half completed,”he warned.
Vivekananda Reddy, in his report to the committee, noted that Andhra Pradesh was always together for more than 2,000 years despite having ruled by many kingdoms. Except for a brief period of about 200 years under the Muslim and colonial rulers, the telugu land is always together and under one administration. A close study of the 1969 and 1972 Jai Andhra movements shows that the significant part of the movements were devoted to the employment opportunities that were available only in the public sectors during those days. things have been changed in the later part of the history due to changes in the government policy. Several entrepreneurs from Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions have set up industries in and around Hyderabad.
Despite all-round development of the Telangana region in all sectors, the Statehood supporters are claiming that their region is backward.
It appears that the genesis for it is ambitious and unemployed politicians whose aspiration is to acquire political power and which will be easily realized in a smaller state. Politicians who are demanding for separate State should have a serious thought on issues relating to extremism, terrorism, regionalism, fundamentalism etc. If telangana state is formed, there is every possibility that Chhattisgarh and Telangana may become a hub for Maoism for spreading their activities to Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, he observed.
–Agencies