I dont know if K Chandrasekara Rao (KCR) wanted to emulate Potti Sriramulu by going for a fast, but south Indian channels were reporting resultant violent events as there was 'Sudden shutdown in Hyderabad, TV bulletins spread panic'. NDTV like any non-South indian channel was not reporting any of it atleast in the beginning. It looked like KCR was indeed able to do what Potti Sriramulu did by dividing Andhra from erstwhile Madras when Home Minister P Chidambaram made the announcement.
Many of my friends from Andhra (none of them were from Telangana) used to say that this Telangana call is nothing but nuisance. They said that Telangana has nothing but Hyderabad and they wont achieve anything by separating from Andhra. Maybe they were biased or 'streamlined' with the opinion of rest of the community. I now know that at the time of the states reorganization, it was indeed agreed that Telangana should be a separate state from Andhra. Congress with its usual approach of postponing or time-wasting 'promised' that Telangana will be later separated because initial level of division of states on linguistic basis had to get completed first and Telangana separation can be 'looked at' later. Congress had been successful in its stalling tactics whether it is Kashmir or LTTE.
Telugus who dismissed the idea of Telangana were those who didnt want Telangana to be separated. So scene of mass resignations was enacted. People from other regions also started giving calls for new states in their regions. Dig well, big hell or to put in Tamil கிணறு வெட்ட பூதம் கிளம்பிச்சு. I intuitively felt that Telangana should be indeed made a separate state and KCR did reaffirm my opinion in his interview. I also felt that protests in Andhra were orchestrated. If some region wants to sever from the old 'parent', how can anyone protest that it should not be severed unless they have vested interests in that region? Also it is going to be just another state in the same country. I bought a flat in Karnataka. So what? I have felt that Telugus are very good at mathematics or studies for that matter but are EVER stupid when it comes to emotions. They mix up everything and are quite 'scheming' .
Central Govt did backtrack, maybe because lot of MPs/MLAs of not just Congress, but TDP and even the recently born PRP seemed to have lot of stake in Hyderabad. With all parties being divided, it makes all the more reason that Telangana should be separated because no legislator from Telangana from any party is against the separation. All parties joined together to form a Joint Action Committee and today JAC gives ultimatum to Centre on formation of Telangana. To add the truly 'film'y look, Governor ND Tiwari was caught in sex scandal and has now resigned.
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