Hyderabad

Hyderabad, the capital city of Andhra Pradesh consists of the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad and is a bustling 400 year old metropolis with an urban population of 6 million people approximately. Hyderabad is famous as the former seat of the fabulously wealthy Nizams of Hyderabad. Built on the banks of the river Musi, and surrounded by huge prehistoric rock formations like petrified, gray elephants, Hyderabad is a blend of the fairy tale and earthy, a pot pourri of old and new.

Hyderabad, India's fifth-largest city was founded in 1590 by Muhammad Quli, the fourth of the Qutb Shahi kings. They ruled this part of the Deccan from 1512 until 1687. Before founding Hyderabad, the Qutab Shahi kings ruled from the forted city of Golconda, 11 km to the west. After Aurangzeb's death in 1707, Mughal control over this part of India rapidly waned and the Asaf Jahi viceroys who had been installed to look after the interests of the Mughal Empire broke away to establish their own independent state. They gave themselves the titles 'subedar' and 'nizam'.

In 1798, a subsidiary alliance for military and political cooperation was signed between the Nizam and the British East India Company. Thereafter an area north of what is now the Hussain Sagar Lake was established as a cantonment. The area was named Secunderabad after the then Nizam, Sikander Jah. Both Hyderabad and Secunderabad grew together and have now merged. An imaginary line drawn across the Tank bund is still used to distinguish the two cities. Hyderabad is among the few Indian cities, which has a well-preserved cultural heritage. Hyderabad invokes nostalgia among old residents for its culture, fine arts and certain sophistication in manners. Much more than anything, Hyderabad presents a true picture of secularism.

Hyderabad is the fifth largest cosmopolitan city in India, rich in culture, enduring history and industrial growth. It is unique in being one of the few cities where tradition and technology co-exist. With a dynamic leadership, the state is steering the nation to new dimensions in the fields of Information Technology, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, and Business Management to emerge as a city of immense business opportunities.

An End 2 Telangana Antagonists By Makara Sankranti

'Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya', may you go higher & higher, to more & more Light and never to Darkness. This is Makar Sankranti’s message to the people of Telangana. As Surya begins its ascendancy today, so shall Telangana begin its. Just as Lord Vishnu ended the terrors of the Asuras on this day, by finishing them off and burying their heads under the Mandara Parvata, so do we the people of Telangana need to finish the evil and exploitative forces that hold us in bondage. We have raised our voice and it has hardly made a dent in the center’s policy. We are still hearing words like “normalcy to return”, “consultative approach” from the Central leadership.

The time for discussions, platitudes and negotiations is over, like Lord Vishnu’s Sudarshan Chakra, we have to sever the power fount of the exploitative anti Telangana forces. The resistance to Telangana is from two powerful forces the land mafia in Hyderabad and the Government contractors in AP. Dry the power of these two factions and the life blood of the anti Telangana forces will dry down. First, how do we tackle the land mafia with their political, and goonda power. We have neither the money nor the gun toting armies like them, but we have is as powerful as the Sudarshan chakra, the might of our numbers and our determination and like Vishnu we need to wield it just once.

Let us take one strong and decisive move, select the most visible and voluble Telangana antagonist, a highly visible example of trickery and cheating who has illegally occupied acres of prime land in Hyderabad, and lay siege to its offices and business interests and force the suspension of work. This will hit the exploiters jugular with no effect on the people and future of Telangana. We all know this business house will not have employed any person from Telangana hence if its offices are closed down the livelihood of our people is not jeopardized nor will it impact our future as the business will not be working on the regions development.

Its mantra would be make money in Hyderabad and develop Vijayawada or Vizag. This will give out the message, loud and clear to the others that it is time for them to pack their bags and go. Coming to the Government contractors, how do we tackle them. This is where our brothers and sisters in Government and Administration need to pitch in. You will have to see to it, that no contractor except if it is from Telangana is awarded any project. And if it has completed or is working on any project ensure the money due to them is delayed indefinitely.

I am sure we can make this happen by using the Government machinery to delay approvals and payments. Once they realize that Hyderabad and Telangana is no longer the goose that lays the golden egg, their antipathy and resistance to our state will die a natural death. This will require firm and decisive action on our part, and if we hesitate any longer the time will be lost and we will have to wait for another 50 years for a Makar Sankranti like todays. Let us remember we have lost all and there is nothing more to lose.

Struggle 4 Telangana is the only Agenda

Telangana is the issue we want to turn a Nelson’s eye to. This seems to be the mantra of the Congress at the center and there are numerous pointers to this. After committing to start the process for creating Telangana on Dec 9, the Govt seems to be slowly going in reverse gear on its commitment. The events at the center and here in Hyderabad all point to frantic behind the scene manipulations aimed at blunting the impact of the struggle.

It all started with ND Tiwari’s videogate scandal with the attendant hue and cry. Then we had the Home Minister raising the Naxal and Maoist bogey at the all party meet. And the specious logic that the Telangana state will fall a prey to naxalism and Maoism. The latest in the series is the report carried in one of Andhra owned channels on the Ambani brothers plotting YSR’s chopper crash. Who ever is devising these strategies seems to be unscrupulous that they can besmirch the reputation of an octogenarian. They seem to have connections in high places, evidence having ND Tiwari replaced by ESL Narasimhan, who within a week of taking office prepares a case file on Naxal and Maoist infiltration in the Struggle. And desperate enough to accuse the biggest Business houses in India of murdering the CM of a state. That these people have a lot to lose and are scared stiff is evident with the increasingly desperate actions they are taking to detract the movement. And it all ties down perfectly with the Centre’s changing stance on Telangana.

The congress high powered core group has decided to wait for the situation to normalize before coming out with a mechanism for holding consultations on the Telangana issue. Mark the words “SITUATION TO NORMALISE” “MECHANISISM FOR CONSULTATIONS”. Looks like the Government is either not listening to the anguished cry of 3.5 crore Indians, or is choosing to play dumb. Can anyone tell me, how a situation can be normal, for a region that has been raped, brutalized and oppressed for 50 long years. Or do they mean a return to status quo, where our farmers quietly commit suicide, where the future of our children is compromised because the engineering and medical seats in their colleges are taken by the Andhras and Rayalseemas. And their jobs and livelihoods are snatched.

Please remember, when the hunger in the stomach and the desperation in the hearts reaches the head, there is no turning back. We the people of Telangana have reached the point to no return and will settle for nothing less than our separate state.

Our Dream & Destiny - Telangana

The writing on the wall is clear, Telangana the 29th state of India is awaiting its birth. While we are lucky to be here when this long cherished day comes. Let us remember those who laid down their lives for Telangana, the 390 students who were shot dead and the countless others who carried aloft the Telangana flame for the last 50 years.

Telangana diehards like Pratap Kishore, EV Padmanabham, Vandematram Ram Chander Rao and countless others. Pratap Kishore the founder of Telangana Praja Samiti was the ideologue who ignited the movement in 1968. Pratap Kishore as the General Secretary of the TPS kept alive the Telangana issue by organizing numerous area wise marches, meetings, and conventions in Warangal and Hyderabad.

In 1987 he along with four others walked from Hyderabad to Delhi to meet Rajiv Gandhi and apprise him of the need for a separate state. A ritual which the Telangana Praja Samiti follows to date is observing November 1 as a day of mourning with fasting and prayers at the Telangana Martyrs Memorial in front of the AP assembly. There are many unsung heroes like Pratap Kishore, who are not here today to see their lives work being fulfilled. We are the favored ones and will have to answer our children and our fathers if we falter now.

Let us not let go of the momentum and keep the pressure on, there are many small ways in which we can compel the creation of Telangana state.
1. Refuse to pay state tax as this is imposed by the AP Govt, which we do not recognize.
2. If you are a police officer refuse to arrest or entertain complaints against Telangana demonstrators.
3. If you are a government servant working in the registrars office, refuse to register any property in the name of a person other than from Telangana.
4. If you are recruiting for any post in Telangana, reject any person not from Telangana.
5. Make your purchases from shops and establishments that support Telangana.
6. Boycott all papers and channels that fail to report on the movement for Telangana.
7. And lastly let us be alert and prempt any moves by KCR to do a M.Chenna Reddy act Telangana is ours and we must achieve it..!

Telangana Gains Unstoppable Momentum

The outcome of the all party meeting on Telangana is but a small setback in the journey for a separate state. The talks have laid bare the ugly truth, the opposition to Telangana is the status of Hyderabad, the five centuries old capital of the region.

The Andhra and Rayalseema exploiters are willing to let go of Telangana if Hyderabad is made a joint capital or a Union Territory. All talk of a united Andhra is nothing but eyewash to keep exploiting Hyderabad. These people have in collusion with successive Andhra and Rayalseema led governments in the state illegally acquired large tracts of land in and around Hyderabad. Ramalinga Raju is the biggest example of this greed and even the powers in Delhi know the real reason behind Lagdapati’s dramabaazi, is the prospect of the Telangana Government seizing the illegal lands occupied by him.

Let the nation and our antagonists know that Telangana with its 10 districts including Hyderabad is non-negotiable. And we the people of Telangana are willing to lay down our lives for this. Telangana Garjana was the first step in the third and final agitation for a separate state and the voice raised continues to echo across the region.

I personally applaud the grit and courage shown by students of the government school in Medak who wrote “Jai Telangana” on the answer sheets and handed it over to the teachers without writing the half-yearly examinations. The elders are not to be left behind people in their 60’s and 70’s from the Telangana Retired Employees, Teachers and Workers’ Welfare Mission, have resolved to actively participate in the separatist agitation till a State is achieved.

Achievement Towords Telangana State

The outcome of the all party meeting on Telangana, called by the Home Minsiter on 5 January 2010, is a foregone conclusion. The BJP is known for ditching the Telangana people, they did it in 1969 and will repeat their stance as evidenced by the statements of their party leaders.

The congress has in its characteristic fashion left all to Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, and we have seen P Chidambaram take one step forward and two backward on the issue. This leaves TRS, which is prone to selling itself for a morsel of chewed up power and a few gold coins. TDP and PRP are anti-Telagana and the CPI and MIM are sitting on the fence. So whatever happens tomorrow the status quo will remain. This leaves the issue of self determination to the people of Telangana, and rightly so. The demand for a separate state is the Voice of 2 Crore People and we have to fight to make it heard and acted upon.

The future of 3.5 crore Indians is too precious to be left to the political parties who have shown time and again that they can change ships in the blink of an eye. So what do we do to achieve a separate state, Telangana State will become a reality when we endanger the existence of all political parties opposed to the Telangana state and show the aggressors that the region can no longer be exploited. We can do this in several ways
1. If your MLA/MP is against Telangana State write a letter to the speaker of the assembly/lok sabha informing him/her that the people of the constituency have no faith in the elected representative and that he/she no longer represents the constituency.
2. Each of us should write a post card to the President of India, the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi demanding Telangana State.
3. In giving our address write Telangana and not Andhra Pradesh.
4. Prevail upon the Andhras and Rayalseema people we know to support Telangana State and if they do not do so boycott them. This treatment should be meted out to all who oppose Telangana state.
5. As far as possible do not patronize shops and business establishments owned by Andhras and Rayalseema people.
6. Do not let out your premises to the Andhras and Rayalseema people and if you have them as tenants politely ask to vacate your premises immediately Remember the future of our children and the next will depend on what we do today.

Justice over 3.5 crore people - Telangana State

Formation of Telangana State.

A long pending item on the national agenda, is the cherished desire of the Telangana people to deliver unto themselves the fruits of freedom and to ensure for themselves social, economic and political justice as enshrined in the constitution. Formation of Telangana State is in the larger national interests as it is dangerous for the nation to have more than two crore frustrated, oppressed and suppressed people in the belly of India. This continues to manifest itself with the youth of the region falling like nine pins to the philosophy of violent extremism and fundamentalism.

As Telangana and its people continue to suffer in Andhra Pradesh the only solution to this humane problem is to form a separate Telangana state. That the merger of Telangana with the Andhra State was against all cannons of wisdom is evident from the fact that even after 53 years there is no emotional integration between the Telangana and Andhra people. The Gentlemen’s Agreement signed by the leaders of Andhra and Telangana to bring about formation of Andhra Pradesh offered safeguards to the Telangana region and its people. This agreement has been treated as a scrap of paper by subsequent Governments both at the Centre and in the State. The Government of India was a guarantor to the Gentlemen’s agreement yet it too failed to protect the interests of the Telangana people who too are Indians.

Today, the time has come for the Government of India to redeem itself and see that finally justice is done to the over 2 crore Telangana people. For us, over 2 crore Telangana people, it is now “Do or Die”, we have suffered for the last half century and will no longer listen to platitudes and promises. Telangana State is non-negotiable, we will not settle for anything less than Telangana State. And let us this time round not leave the destiny of over two crore Indians to the political parties which have time stabbed us in the back for the proverbial forty pieces of silver.

Let us unite and keep the momentum of the movement till the Government at the Centre promises a date for the formation the Telangana State. Any laxity on our part and we will subjugate our future generations to continued exploitation, subjugation and rape at the hands of the Andhra’s Remember “Telangana State is non-negotiable” Jai Telangana Jai Hind.