Telugu States' News and Discussion

[Lilo]

Some thing to emulate.
Baba Ramchandra in 1920 Pratapgarh replaced Salaam with "Sita Ram"
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~sj6/Pandey%20Pe ... Revolt.pdf

https://twitter.com/sarpamedha/status/4 ... 3090640897

[vishvak]

"to restore Naizam kingdom with its borders intact"

Seems to be dream sold by KCR. Razakars will survive for sure now but if the dream doesn't pan out exactly in democratic times, who will be blamed?

The Indian govt allowed nizam to leave with his possessions and without trying him in courts. Rest is followed by media propaganda to continue deracination so as to hide atrocious nizam rule.

[bahdada]

Our food is now half Turkic/Mughalai/Persian you name it but definitely not Seemandhra

Reminds me the debate i had with a hardcore T-fan. He was into Lahoric logic and saying Ts are Non veg and Biryani is T crusine while Andhras are Veggies who eat "Papannam"

Professor Jayashankar who's one T-Vadi "Freedom Fighters' had this to say.

He was associated with the Telangana movement efforts to obtain statehood for Telangana since 1952, stating with Non-Mulki go back and Idli Sambar go back movement. He wanted the "Puri Mutton" to populate the lands of Telangana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kothapalli ... a_movement

[Lilo]

Re: 2 Deputy CMs of T

Md Mahmood Ali first became MLC with help of MIM and now Deputy CM with promise of 12 % reservation for Muslims.

Hyderabad, March 19:
(Siasat News) Mr. Mohammed Mahmood Ali, Chairman of Minorities Cell of TRS and MLC in a press statement assured that TRS will fulfill its election promise. He assured that TRS will provide 12% reservations to the Muslims and to appoint a Muslim candidate as Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana state. He told that out of 153 MLAs at least 35 Muslims will be the candidates. The Minorities Cell of TRS has represented the matter to the election commission to form 24 smaller districts in Telangana state following the example of Haryana state. If there is one MP for five MLAs, the state can progress rapidly. If this plan in accepted Muslims will get the benefit out of it. He hoped that the Telangana state will be form on 2nd June and TRS will formed the Govt. TRs is trying to give representation to 3-4 Muslim MLAs and the promise which TRS has made to the Muslims will certainly be fulfill. A Muslim MLA will be made Deputy CM and 2 MLAs will be inducted into the cabinet. The budget of the Muslims will be more than 1000 crore rupees. Govt. jobs will be offered to the Muslims in large numbers. 12% reservation in education institution and jobs will be provided to the Muslims. Free education will also be given to Muslim. Parents of poor students will be given financial aid. Houseless Muslim will be allotted plots of 120 Sq. yards. Govt. will give 1.5 lakh for the construction of houses to be given to the Muslims. Muslims above the age of 60 years will be given Rs. 1000 as pension. Muslim women will also get this pension. Handicapped persons will be given Rs. 1500 per month. Waqf Board will be made a statutory organization. The Chairman of Waqf Board will be given executive powers. Urdu will get official status. Urdu knowing people will be appointed in all the Govt. dept. Urdu residential schools will be opened. He appealed to the Muslims to exercise their votes in favour of TRS.

http://www.siasat.com/english/news/mahm ... uslims-trs

2nd Deputy CM , Dr T. Rajaiah is a direct appointee of EJs.

.......
Andhra Pradesh Bishop's Council members also met Mr Rao and congratulated him. They requested Mr Rao to include Dr Rajaiah from Warangal in his Cabinet as the representative of the Christian minority and Dalit Madiga.

Most Rev. Udumala Bala, Bishop of Warangal, Most Rev. Govindu Joji, Bishop of Nalgonda, Most Rev. Poola Anthony, Bishop and secretary to Andhra Pradesh Bishop’s Council and Fr U. Balashowry, Amruthavani director, Fr. Anthony Raj, Fr. Thatikonda Joseph, Fr. Gabriel and Sisters greeted the CM-designate.
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http://www.deccanchronicle.com/140522/n ... n-babu-kcr

[vishvak]

Reminds of foreign embassy personnel going to Hyderabad during UPA-II. But what about other nonpolitical minorities including linguistic etc. Seems to be usual minority == followers of one or two religions onlee, and ad-hoc enough to not be seen as pattern in Hindu minority states.

[Rony]

After The Celebration, The Worries in Telangana

Whatever the controversies and conflicts of recent years, a new beginning is a new beginning. Telangana's creation as the 29th state of the Union of India has been marked by fervour and celebration in Hyderabad and the people of Telangana are entitled to a moment of satisfaction. Even so, the entire episode has thrown up a few warnings that need to be internalised.

Broadly, three factors raise concern. First, Telangana is a landlocked state with limited irrigation facilities. Unlike landlocked states such as Haryana - fertile, agriculturally rich as well as situated at the doorstep of Delhi and the booming economy of the National Capital Region - it has no obvious advantages of location. Telangana's one asset is the city of Hyderabad.

Hyderabad can be the engine that will drive the rest of Telangana. Grasping politicians can also resort to the equivalent of asset stripping. They can savage the city of its revenue potential, and kill their golden goose. In a sense, the relationship between politicians from the Maharashtra hinterland and the city of Mumbai can serve as a sobering reminder of what may happen if this equation goes wrong. It is for the new government of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti to be fair to both Hyderabad - one of India's largest, most well-endowed cities - and the rest of Telangana.

Second, Seemandhra, with its richer agricultural capacities, with its coast and its entrepreneurial wealth, is potentially better placed than Telangana. In the coming years, the government of N Chandrababu Naidu is probably going to build a spanking new capital in Mangalagiri, which lies between Guntur and Vijayawada. Many senior Andhra politicians - including leading lights of the erstwhile Congress, influential Kammas who dominate the Telugu Desam and others who are linked with the state's many infrastructure companies - have made investments and built land banks in what could become the Mangalagiri metropolitan area.

Creating a modern city and a capital is a wonderful idea in a country that has done so little by way of urban renewal and upgrade. Yet, there is a fear that the re-imagining of Mangalagiri-Guntur-Vijayawada, the building of new legislature and secretariat, a capacious airport and so on, could become a gigantic public-spending scandal and consume more time and resources than would be warranted. Again, it is for Naidu, returning as chief minister after a decade, to ensure his fresh term is not hijacked by the capital development project.

Finally, the movement for Telangana, the ham-handed response of the UPA government in 2009 and the subsequent cynicism with which it approached a solution, offer a message for all political parties. In the recent elections, the Congress was wiped out in Seemandhra - zero parliamentary seats and zero assembly seats - and finished a distant second in Telangana. With the social fires the UPA government lit, Telangana became symbolic of how not to partition a state.

This is not the final statehood demand in India. From Vidarbha in Maharashtra to the idea of four daughter provinces in Uttar Pradesh, there are many others that deserve serious consideration. In addition, there are less salient demands from states as far apart as West Bengal and Rajasthan.

While political, regional and ethnic/identity parameters have been considered for state formation, it is time to look at economic and fiscal sustainability as well. Where necessary, creative mechanisms and innovations can be designed to address economic gaps that may arise as a consequence of drawing new state boundaries.

Telangana could face challenges in this regard. Bereft of clientele from Seemandhara, particularly if Mangalagiri gets an international airport in the near future, how viable is the Hyderabad airport? On the other hand, couldn't landlocked Telangana have gained from a preferential relationship with Vishakapatnam port, which is now in another state?

These questions require deeper thinking. Much before we set up another State Reorganisation Commission to actually create new states, we need a commission to decide on economic parameters and criteria for state formation.

See the comments to this article

[ramana]

He glosses over the real problems and brings in Andhra Pradesh which after the division should not be a problem to anyone in Telangana.

The real problem is the restoration of the Nizamiyat whcih is mid-wifed by INC. Recall Nehru let Kasim Rizivi escape to Pakistan after serving his sentence and the restoration of Razakars as MIM under the Owaisis.

With 6 seats MIM becomes the Dy CM in Telangana.

Narendra Luther in his book "Hyderabad" writes how with 17% Muslim population the Nizam controlled 83% of the Hindus and ruled from 1720s till Sardar Patel launched Operation Polo and liberated the Hindus.

KCR willingly chose put them back under Nizamshahi with same demographics!

Soon he could be accidented and MIM will step in as compromise leaders of Telangana!

The next big problem is Naxalites. its now a Telangana problem and teh mix of factors that first gave rise to the Communist movement under the Nizam are even more prevalent.


is this why people of Telangana chose to be divided? Or is this a KCR compulsion or preference/

Before the division I was told by senior Telangana Reddy leadership as to how Andhras were propping up MIM and suppressing the Telangana native leadership.

[RamaY]

Before the division I was told by senior Telangana Reddy leadership as to how Andhras were propping up MIM and suppressing the Telangana native leadership.

I remember our Devesh garu mentioning this grand-strategy!

So MIM is a Seemandhra conspiracy, now? What next, NIZAM was a seemandhra agent? Allauddin Khilji is from Godawari districts who secretly went to Turkey and came back to destroy Kakatiya kingdom?

The million dinar question is why is KCR making incestuous love with MIM fully knowing that he is a seemandhra agent and Owaisi loves pappannam?

Is all this anti-andhra movement is to replace andhra-colonizers with their moth-eaten paki MIM agents

[ramana]

Well go back to the Mesquita simulation runs.
All things equal TRS and MIM would gravitate towards each other.

Its a way to restore Nizamshahi under Omar Khalidi's dream.

One observer said Ahmed Patel wants to create a new Azamgarh in Deccan. This is the old fall of Devagiri redux which started the Muslimization of Deccan.

If this is true expect Dy CM to become CM soon as TRS infighting erupts eventually.

[ShyamSP]

The real problem is the restoration of the Nizamiyat whcih is mid-wifed by INC. Recall Nehru let Kasim Rizivi escape to Pakistan after serving his sentence and the restoration of Razakars as MIM under the Owaisis.

With 6 seats MIM becomes the Dy CM in Telangana.
...
is this why people of Telangana chose to be divided? Or is this a KCR compulsion or preference/

Before the division I was told by senior Telangana Reddy leadership as to how Andhras were propping up MIM and suppressing the Telangana native leadership.

For past few decades, Andhras made MIM irrelevant and changed shape/culture of Hyderabad. TRS/INC/MIM is back to putting MIM and Nizami culture on map.
TRS giving more prominence is because Greater Hyderabad rejected TRS/INC and went with TDP. They want to take control of Hyderabad, the bastion of non-T in T, via MIM.

This provides interesting opportunities for others to set TRS right if they make good political moves.

[RamaY]

This provides interesting opportunities for others to set TRS right if they make good political moves.

Why do you think the scare mongering over hyd-jobs?

[ramana]

If you read the Ashok Malik article its about the wealth generation in Hyderabad which is under TDP.

And note his analogy to Mumbai.


Malik is saying let Hyd be Hyd and not kill the golden goose but TRS-MIM alliance shows they want to find the source of the eggs as in the fable.

[Lilo]

He glosses over the real problems and brings in Andhra Pradesh which after the division should not be a problem to anyone in Telangana.

The real problem is the restoration of the Nizamiyat whcih is mid-wifed by INC. Recall Nehru let Kasim Rizivi escape to Pakistan after serving his sentence and the restoration of Razakars as MIM under the Owaisis.

With 6 seats MIM becomes the Dy CM in Telangana.

Narendra Luther in his book "Hyderabad" writes how with 17% Muslim population the Nizam controlled 83% of the Hindus and ruled from 1720s till Sardar Patel launched Operation Polo and liberated the Hindus.

KCR willingly chose put them back under Nizamshahi with same demographics!

Soon he could be accidented and MIM will step in as compromise leaders of Telangana!

The next big problem is Naxalites. its now a Telangana problem and teh mix of factors that first gave rise to the Communist movement under the Nizam are even more prevalent.


is this why people of Telangana chose to be divided? Or is this a KCR compulsion or preference/

Before the division I was told by senior Telangana Reddy leadership as to how Andhras were propping up MIM and suppressing the Telangana native leadership.

^
As if on que toady Al-Chindu carried this approving book review of AG Noorani's bogus claims in his "Destruction of Hyderabad" in its National Edition.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp ... 076767.ece

This transformation of Razakars into some sort of "victims" of a "Brutal Police Action" led by Sardar Patel is the wet dream come true of the Commie-Razakar nexus (fountain head in the septic hole called Osmania University) which underpinned the T movement.Now iam waiting for a barrage of farticles in T- vernancular editions regarding "genocide of Muslims" during Polo, just to take the people on a guilt trip ,and justify their new found Dhimmitude under a resurgent MIM. So watch this space.

Below are some quotes on this issue...

Fall of Hyderabad: 17th September a black day in human history
17 September 2011
By Kaneez Fathima,

17th September is a black day in the Human history. In the year 1948, this was the day when the Indian Union attacked and occupied the Hyderabad State through Military action which is called as ‘Police Action’ and originally it was named as “Operation Polo”. Lakhs of Muslims were killed in this military attack, women were dishonored. The cities, towns and villages were completely destroyed. Lakhs of Muslims were made homeless. Masjids and Dargahs were dismantled.

Until 17th September 1948, Hyderabad was an independent country popularly named as princely state with Nizam VII, Mir Osman Ali Khan as its ruler. Hyderabad was never under the British rule. Hyderabad was as large as the present country France. It had its own currency, railways, postal department, Judiciary, military etc. In fact, there were 544 princely states then spread all over the area which is presently known as India. Hyderabad was one among them. All these princely states were occupied and merged by the Indian Union after it got independence from the Britishers. But as Hyderabad was one of the largest princely states, the Indian government that was formed after the Britishers left, it wanted Hyderabad to merge into Indian union, because Hyderabad State was in between the North and South regions, therefore, if Indian Union wanted to rule over the Southern region then it was not possible so they wanted to occupy the Hyderabad state, so that they can include the whole North and South regions and rule over it. However, the VII Nizam did not agree to the proposal of Indian government and wanted some time to think about it as the Britishers had given him three choices, one is to merge into Indian Union, two is to remain independent and the third is to merge into newly formed Pakistan.

Let us examine ‘Liberation’ in what sense and from whom? In the year 1948, on the pretext of suppressing communist movement that was spread only in four districts of Hyderabad State, the Indian union attacked the Hyderabad state to overthrow the Nizam rule which was considered as Muslim rule. Though the police action was to occupy Hyderabad state but actually in the name of police action, Muslims were killed in large numbers. It was estimated officially by the Sundarlal Committee appointed by the government of India that One Lakh Muslims were killed by the Indian army and unofficial estimation is more than two lakh Muslims were killed. {this figure itself is taken from Noorani's farticle published back in 2001 in Frontline http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1805/18051130.htm quoted below}The Arya Samaj and other Hindu fundamentalist organizations along with Indian military were involved in the killing of Muslims. 17th September is not the liberation day but day of genocide, the implications of which can be felt even today.

The Nizam of Hyderabad State never even thought of this type of massacre, because he always considered Hindus and Muslims as his two eyes. The way the people of Hyderabad were targeted due to the Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan’s innocence and lack of future understanding, he underwent shock due to that. All his dreams went scattered, his tongue went soar, because this richest man of the world would never have dreamt that his home would be destroyed so brutally in front of his eyes and he was unable to do anything.

The Indian Union’s aim was not just to exterminate the Nizam’s government, but also to erase the culture, language, history and literature of Hyderabad. So, the Nizam’s government was eliminated by one attack, but the culture, language, history and literature that has strong roots, could not be erased even after the military action of 17th September. But it has been continuously under attack. The recent uprising Telangana movement is born/emerged from the remaining of culture, heritage and language of Hyderabad, which is called Hyderabadi tahzeeb. Because of this we have given the slogan Hyderabad is Telangana and Telangana is Hyderabad.

It is time now to think as to who is benefiting by giving the slogans of ‘Liberation Day’ and who wants the state government to declare this day officially as liberation day. In the year 1948, as the Congress gave the reasons of suppressing the communist movement and occupied the Hyderabad state to overthrow the Nizam’s rule, in the present times, BJP is using the same strategy and supporting the Telangana movement and propagating that the Muslim rule will come back. One should also think as to why the BJP and TRS have been celebrating this particular day? These two parties are working on same ideological line and majoritarian ideology of these parties will make the people to stand against Muslims. The BJP is making communal statements and instigating common people against Muslims and bringing differences among the communities. So, the SCs, STs and BCs are thinking on the lines of BJP. On the one hand TRS praises Nizam for providing infrastructure and on the other hand it is depicting him as enemy of the people. This dual stand will benefit them both in getting more votes in forthcoming elections. More than this both the parties want to hide the real history of Hyderabad. History is not a monolithic one, it must be read in multiple ways and bring out the facts to construct the understanding.

This day has been celebrated by the BJP and Congress as liberation day. TDP celebrated it as a merger day and the TRS and left parties have celebrated it as betrayal day and the Muslim, SC, ST, and Bahujan organizations have named it as Invasion day. So, there is no clear understanding among the political parties as to what they should call the day 17th September as.

We can understand with the opinion of various political parties that they are not sincere towards the separate Telangana movement and are playing vote bank politics to increase their political employment.

We Telanganites are still under the suppression of the Seemandhras, so we haven’t got the liberation and freedom yet. Though India has got independence in the year 1947, Hyderabad was already independent. But after the merger, the Andhra occupied the Telangana region, diverted all the natural resources to their region and now they have occupied the Waqf lands and are ruling over us. Therefore, people of Telangana are still under the suppression of the Seemandhras. Therefore, in real sense we haven’t got freedom yet. Unless and until Telangana is formed as a separate state, we cannot say that we are free and liberated.

There was no Telangana movement at the time when the Indian Union attacked the Hyderabad State. There was only communist movement that too spread over a small part of the Hyderabad state, say in four districts. Therefore, 17th September cannot be considered as Liberation day as it had no connection with Telangana freedom. It is a black day in human history as lakhs of Muslims were massacred. Telangana people who know about the history of Hyderabad very clearly also know that 17th September is neither a liberation day, nor betrayal day but in fact it is a black day in human history.

(The author is attached with Muslim Forum for Telangana)
http://twocircles.net/2011sep17/fall_hy ... story.html

Even the "Eminent Historian" Darlalymepel vomited on Operation Polo in his book Age of Kali.

(pp 209-210):
I discovered later that it is in fact possible to make an informed estimate of the numbers killed in the aftermath of the 'police action'. For when reports of atrocities began to reach Delhi, Nehru 'in his private capacity', commissioned an unofficial report from a group of veteran Congressmen made up of two Hyderabadi Muslims who had prominently opposed the Nizam's rule and chaired by a Hindu, Pandit Sunderlal. The team made an extensive tour of the State and submitted their report to Nehru and Sardar Patel in January 1949. The report's findings were never made public, however, presumably because of its damning criticism of the conduct of the Indian army. It remained unpublished until a portion of it, smuggled out of India, recently appeared in America in an obscure volume of scholarly essays entitled Hyderabad: After the Fall.
The report, entitled On the Post-Operation Polo Massacres, Rape and Destruction or Seizure of Property in Hyderabad State, makes grim reading. In village after village across the state, it meticulously and unemotionally catalogued incidents of murder and mass rape, sometimes committed by troops, in other cases committed by local Hindu hooligans after the troops had disarmed the Muslim population. A short extract, chosen at random, gives the general flavour:
"Ganjoti Paygah, District Osmanabad:There are 500 homes belonging to Muslims here. Two hundred Muslims were murdered by the goondas. The army had seized weapons from the Muslims. As the Muslims became defenceless, the goondas began the massacre. Muslim women were raped by the troops. Statement of Pasha Bi, resident of Ganjoti: the trouble in Ganjoti began after the army's arrival. All the young Muslim women here were raped. Five daughters of Osman sahib were raped and six daughters of the Qazi were raped. Ismail Sahib Sawdagar's daughter was raped in Saiba Chamar's home for a week. Soldiers from Umarga came every week and after all-night rape, young Muslim women were sent back to their homes in the morning. Mahtab Tamboli's daughters were divided among Hindus, one is in Burga Julaha's home... "
And so on, for page after page. In all, the report estimates that as many as 200,000 Hyderabadi Muslims were slaughtered in the aftermath of the 'Police Action': an astonishing figure which, if true, would turn the 'police action' into a bloodbath comparable to parts of the Punjab during Partition. Even if one regards the figure of 200,000 dead as an impossible exaggeration, it is still clear that the scale of the killing was horrific. Although publicly Nehru played down the disorder in Hyderabad, claiming to the Indian representative at the United Nations that following the Nizam's officials deserting their posts there had been some disorder in which Hindus had retaliated for their sufferings under the [Muslim] Razakars [militia], privately he was much more alarmed. This is indicated by a note Nehru sent to Sardar Patel's Ministry of States on the 26th of November 1948, saying that he had received reports of killings of Muslims so large in number 'as to stagger the imagination' and looting of Muslim property 'on a tremendous scale' - all of which would seem to confirm the general tone of Pandit Sunderlal's report.

Regarding Culture of MIM -
The recent copious gas being pushed out(in farticles ) in puffing up the "graceful" high culture of "Hyderabadi Tehzeeb" and praising it as the Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb of Deccan. {Note how in praise of "Hyderabadi Tehzeeb" native culture automatically gets placed on a lower pedestal as a crude abomination unworthy of upkeep }

Of a massacre untold -Frontline 2001 March
A revealing account surfaces of happenings in Hyderabad state in the wake of the Indian Army's 'Police Action' there in 1948.

A. G. NOORANI

"AT times one has to close his (sic) eyes in national interest." The "senior police officer" who made this confession to The Indian Express, in Srinagar on February 17, provided a truthful explanation for the compromises which sections of the medi a and academia tend to make in the "national interest".

The officer was speaking of the volte-face his chief, A.K. Suri, had performed with regard to the disclosure of the arrest by the police of a man from Military Intelligence, in plain clothes, for firing wantonly on a group of youngsters in Maisuma , in Srinagar. But, let alone matters of immediate occurrence or issues of current interest such as Kashmir and the border dispute with China, even on historical events one finds a practice of economising with truth.

That K.M. Munshi, India's Agent-General in the erstwhile state of Hyderabad, did not mention in his memoirs The End of an Era (1957) the massacre of Muslims in many areas in the wake of the Indian Army's "Police Action" in September 1948 - itself a compromise with the truth - was but to be expected in view of his outlook. Not so its omission in standard works by writers who aspired to scholarly values and who were not communal; only "patriotic" in a perverted but familiar manner. A rare exception was the book by Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader P. Sundarayya, Telengana People's Struggle and its Lessons (1972). He wrote of the "untold miseries" that were inflicted on "the ordinary Muslim people" (pages 88-89).

Suppression of records is not only unethical but futile. More often than not, the foreign scholar will unearth it from archives in London or Washington, or in India itself. A German scholar has done just that. Margrit Pernau records in her book The Pa ssing of Patrimonalism that "while the occupation by the Indian army had been quick and had caused only relatively few casualties, the following communal carnage was all the more terrible. The Razakars had sown wind and reaped not only storm but a hu rricane which in a few days cost the lives of one-tenth to one-fifth of the male Muslim population primarily in the countryside and provincial towers". (page 336, emphasis added, throughout. See review on page 75).

Professor Wilfred Cantwell Smith, a scholar on Islam and a critic of Jinnah's politics, wrote a seminal article in the periodical The Middle East Journal in 1950 (Volume 4) titled Hyderabad: A Muslim Tragedy. He was Lecturer in Islamic Hist ory at the University of the Punjab and at the Forman Christian College, Lahore (1940-1946) and visited Hyderabad in 1949. In a critique of the Nizam's policies and of Qasim Razvi, the leader of the Razakars, he also fairly described the aftermath.

"Off the battlefield, however, the Muslim community fell before a massive and brutal blow, the devastation of which left those who did survive reeling in bewildered fear. Thousands upon thousands were slaughtered; many hundreds of thousands uprooted . The instrument of their disaster was, of course, vengeance. Particularly in the Marathwara section of the state, and to a less but still terrible extent in most other areas, the story of the days after 'police action' is grim.

"The only careful report on what happened in this period was made a few months later by investigators - including a Congress Muslim and a sympathetic and admired Hindu - commissioned by the Indian Government to study the situation. The report was submitted but has not been published; presumably it makes unpleasant reading. It is widely held that the figure mentioned therein for the number of Muslims massacred is 50,000. Other estimates by responsible observers run as high as 200,000, and by some of the Muslims themselves still higher. {this figure comes down to 20,000 in his "Destruction of Hyderabad" Book}The lowest estimates, even those offered privately by apologists of the military government, came to at least ten times the number of murders with which previously the Razakars were officially accused...{ } In some areas, all the men were stood in a line, and done to death. Of the total Muslim community in Hyderabad, it would seem that somewhere between one in ten and one in five of the adult males may have lost their lives in those few days. In additio n to killing, there was widespread rape, arson, looting, and expropriation. A very large percentage of the entire Muslim population of the Districts fled in destitution to the capital or other cities; and later efforts to repatriate them met with scant s uccess." He was referring to a report by Pandit Sundarlal (1886-1980) and Kazi Muhammad Abdul Ghaffar(1889-1956).

In 1988, Omar Khalidi, a devoted chronicler of Hyderabad, published what he claimed were extracts from their Report in his compilation of essays, Hyderabad: After the Fall (Hyderabad Historical Society; Wichita, Kansas; U.S.). His introduction to the extracts, though informative, is marred by inaccuracies and intemperate language. He had relied, somewhat uncritically, on an interview with Yunus Salim who claimed inaccurately, that he was a member of the team led by Sundarlal which toured Hyderaba d in November-December 1948. A 32-year-old State attorney then, he was dismissed from the post for having helped the team.

Yunus Salim was a Deputy Minister for Railways in Indira Gandhi's government (1969) and a Governor of Bihar in 1991. Garbled versions of the Report appeared in Pakistan. Khalidi writes: "In addition to the copy in the Union Home Ministry, Srinivas Lahoti , a Communist Party of India leader in Hyderabad, owned a copy. In an interview in February 1988 he claims to have deposited it with the National Archives of India, New Delhi upon his party's instruction. The present writer obtained fragments of t he Report (which is partly in English and partly in Urdu) from owners who wish to remain anonymous. The portion in English is being reproduced without any alteration. The Urdu portion is translated into English."

Khalidi was misled. The entire document is in English and the "fragments" he reproduces should have put him on notice that it is not safe to rely on them. The brief Introductory portion is intrinsically unreliable. The rest is a village-wise and d istrict-wise account.

Union Home Minister Vallabhbhai Patel reacted angrily to the Report in a letter to Abdul Ghaffar dated January 4, 1949:

"I notice that in your report you mentioned that you were asked by the Government of India to proceed to Hyderabad State on a goodwill mission. At least I am not aware of any such mission having been entrusted to you by the Government of India. As far as I know, you wanted to go there and it was arranged that you should go there at Government expense. There could have been no question of Government of India sending any goodwill mission to Hyderabad State.

"I notice that your report is and your activities were, restricted to making inquiries about what happened during and after the police action. There is nothing in it about the extent and consequences of Razakar atrocities. Probably that was out of the terms of reference which you had set for yourselves. At the same time, you have covered in your reports matters which could by no stretch of imagination, have formed the purview of your enquiry. I should also like to say at once that the detailed in quiries which have been made by the local administration over a fairly long period as opposed to the roving enquiries which you have made during such a short period show that your estimate and your appreciation of the position lack balance and proportion . Finally you have rushed into a sphere which might have been more appropriately left to be covered by experienced statesmanship and administrative ability."

The assertions were simply untrue and the aspersions were unworthy of Sardar Patel. In those days nobody could have toured the State without official approval. That the team went there admittedly "at government expense" revealed a lot. And, as we know "e xperienced statesmanship and administrative ability" do not guarantee impartiality in inquiries. The report censured the Razakars and was balanced.

Kazi Abdul Ghaffar was a bitter critic of Razvi's Majlis-e Ittihadul-Muslimin and was trusted by the State Congress. He was editor of Firangi Mahal's Khilafatist paper Akhuwat (1919-20) and of Payam (1934-46) and was respected as a scholar- journalist. He visited Hyderabad in October along with Padmaja Naidu and alerted Maulana Abul Kalam Azad to the happenings there. Pandit Sundarlal was vice-president of the United Provinces Congress (1931-36) and as president of the All-India Peace Counc il (1959-63), urged rapprochement with China against the majority view of the times.

His magnum opus, The Gita and The Quran, is a neglected work. An English translation was published in 1957 by the Institute of Indo-Middle East Cultural Studies, Hyderabad. Neglected also is Volume 8 (second series) of Selected Works of Jawahar lal Nehru (1990) (pages 102-113).

In a Note to Sardar Patel's Ministry of States, dated November 14, 1948, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, while denying Pakistan's propaganda, wrote: "I have recently had talks with Kazi Abdul Ghaffar and Miss Padmaja Naidu, who have just returned from H yderabad. They are both reliable observers... The impression I have gathered from these talks is that while our army is generally believed to have functioned well and to have protected the people, there is little doubt that a very large number of outbreaks took place in the small towns and villages resulting in the massacre of possibly some thousands of Muslims by Hindus, as well as a great deal of looting, etc... This information is contrary to what I had believed and I should like it to be verified through our military and civil authorities in Hyderabad. We must know the truth, or else we shall be caught saying things which are proved to be false later." It is unlikely that those reports did not reach the ears of the Minister concerned, Vallabhbhai Patel.

Even men like Dr. Zakir Hussain's brother, the academic Dr. Yusuf Husain Khan, and Dr. M. A. Ansari's nephew, M.A. Ansari, a High Court Judge, were "removed from their post", Nehru complained. He added: "One of the persistent charges made is that we inte nd to kill what is called Muslim culture. Hyderabad is known all over the Middle East as a city of Muslim culture. The Osmania University is well known and even better known is the publication department and the translation bureau of the State."

With a letter to V.P. Menon, the secretary of the Ministry, dated November 26, 1946, Nehru enclosed a note on the situation in Hyderabad and remarked: "If possible, some good non-officials should go there to help the administration and to try to produce a better frame of mind both among the Muslims and the Hindus."

The editor to the volume recorded: "A four-man goodwill mission, consisting of Kazi Abdul Ghaffar, Pandit Sundarlal, Moulana Abdulla Misri and Furrukh Sayer Shakeri, was sent to Hyderabad at the personal instance of Nehru to study existing conditions and to help in the establishments of communal harmony. After a brief visit to Bidar and Osmanabad districts by Major-General Chaudhury, Pandit Sundarlal, Akbar Ali Khan and Fareed Mirza, two teams, one consisting of Pandit Sundarlal, Kazi Abdul Ghaffar, Mul la Abdul Basith and Mohammed Yunus Saleem had toured Bidar, Osmanabad and Nanded while the other consisting of Moulana Abdulla Misri, Furrukh Sayer and Fareed Mirza visited Aurangabad, Bhir and Gulbarga. They took stock of the information collected and s ent a report to Vallabhbhai Patel."

All of which shows Sardar Patel's repudiation of the officially sponsored team to be less than honest. Nehru's note cited "additional reports from Hyderabad" about the killing and looting. It said: "If there is even a fraction of truth in these reports, then the situation in Hyderabad was much worse than we had been led to believe. It is important that the exact facts should be placed before us. We want no optimistic account and no suppression of unsavoury episodes. That would lead us to form incorrect judgments... A sense of fear seems to pervade the Muslims of Hyderabad. That is perhaps natural after all that has happened. But unless we can lessen this fear, the situation will become worse."

Dr. Charan Sandhilya, Director of Pandit Sundarlal Institute of Asian Studies at Ghaziabad obtained for this writer a copy of the full text of the Sundarlal Report from the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi (excerpts on facing page). It record s official sponsorship and reflects their objectivity in denouncing the Razakars' murderous attacks on Hindus, in praising officials where praise was due, yet never flinching from telling the terrible truth about the massacre of Muslims. This is a truth which hardly any Indian scholar has deigned to admit this day.

The Sundarlal Report is of more than historical importance; it is of current relevance, for the massacres, coupled with the national indifference to them, have left scars in the minds of Muslims in the State, Hyderabad city in particular. And some Muslim communal parties have not been slow to exploit these scars.

http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1805/18051130.htm

...........
In Noorani’s telling, Nehru was contemptuous of the Nizam’s government but bore no malice towards him. He also held Hyderabad’s culture in high regard. In contrast, “Patel hated the Nizam personally and was ideologically opposed to Hyderabad’s composite culture. Nehru’s concern was to … [defeat] Hyderabad’s secessionist venture. Patel wanted to go further. He wanted to destroy Hyderabad and its culture completely. In Hyderabad, as in Kashmir, Nehru was an ardent Indian nationalist. On both states, Vallabhbhai Patel was a strident Hindu nationalist”, he writes. When Patel repeatedly described Hyderabad as an “ulcer in the heart of India”, the metaphor, says Noorani, revealed a vindictive mindset .

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/ ... hyderabad/

[Vikas]

The Drama never ends...

EW DELHI: Congress termed Sonia Gandhi's letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for assistance to Seemandhra today as "very significant", saying the UPA government made many commitments for the residual state and now it was for the NDA to implement them.

"Our commitment is to the people of Andhra Pradesh...constructively to ensure that the promises that we made, which was passed by Parliament. This is what the letter of the Congress president said. It is a very significant letter," party leader Jairam Ramesh said. He said that Polavaram project was a commitment made by the Congress as part of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2014.

"It was part of the Congress working committee resolution of July 30, 2013 also. Polavaram is a national project. There are about 50,000 families who have to be resettled. Out of 50,000 families, roughly 30,000 families are in Khammam district alone. We expect that the resettlement will be done before the project is commissioned. "We expect the resettlement will be done in a humane manner. Proper compensation will be paid. Resettlement will be done in a democratic manner. No forcible relocation will take place," Ramesh said.

He said that the Congress party is fully committed to the implementation of the Polavaram project because it will benefit both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Ramesh's statement came after Gandhi wrote to Modi urging him to implement the commitments made by the previous Congress-led government to Seemandhra which include grant of special category status to it and execution of Polavaram multi-purpose irrigation project.

In her letter, Gandhi said the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, by which Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh, contains various investment and other commitments by the Centre to Seemandhra region.

The Congress president promised all cooperation to the Modi government in implementing these commitments. "...The groundwork for many of them, like in the area of water resources, grant of special category status and facilitating the Polavaram project had already been laid by the erstwhile UPA government. I do hope that your administration will build on what we had accomplished and take them forward," Gandhi said in the letter dated yesterday.

[ramana]

One has to realize that TRS mentality is they prefer MIM to Andhras.
This is the core issue.
Even in RECW true blue RSS ethos Telangana folks would side with Commies from Andhra and Muslims from Telangana (Zaheerabad etc) and would "Say sorry anna! Have to be with them!"
And be friends once in US!


So good they cant blame anyone else in future.

The Malik article seems to set the tone for future takleef at others progress.

If Sonia Gandhi cared so much how come she didn't show up at KCR swearing ceremony?
Nor wil she show up at CBN's swearing ceremony!

BTW Jairam Ramesh platitudes explain what he was doing meeting Jaitley with CBN.


Having lost the elections Congress has no say to claim any credit for the division or progress of each region.

[ShyamSP]

This provides interesting opportunities for others to set TRS right if they make good political moves.

Why do you think the scare mongering over hyd-jobs?

Whatever is the reason, Seemandhra is not going to allow them, the "settlers". It will be up to Center to handle the situation.

Seemandhra is fully of hope on TDP post-split. Since 2010 RE investments in Hyderabad hasn't grown where as in Seemandhra it is 2-3 times in most of reasonable places not just big cities like Vijayawada. (10-20% in past month alone as TDP won)

One big fight with T will be electricity (consumption-based) and revenues which T got lion-share where as Andhra got lion-share on loans (population-based). If T wants to do cry-foul on Andhra, Seemandhra has more reasons to do on Telangana. Each issue will be on Modi's neck to solve.

[bhavani]

One has to realize that TRS mentality is they prefer MIM to Andhras.
This is the core issue.
Even in RECW true blue RSS ethos Telangana folks would side with Commies from Andhra and Muslims from Telangana (Zaheerabad etc) and would "Say sorry anna! Have to be with them!"
And be friends once in US!


So good they cant blame anyone else in future.

The Malik article seems to set the tone for future takleef at others progress.

If Sonia Gandhi cared so much how come she didn't show up at KCR swearing ceremony?
Nor wil she show up at CBN's swearing ceremony!

BTW Jairam Ramesh platitudes explain what he was doing meeting Jaitley with CBN.


Having lost the elections Congress has no say to claim any credit for the division or progress of each region.

The whole thing has nothing to do with welfare of anybody.

Sonia gandhi or Congress does not care about Andhra or Telangana.

Sonia is trying to salvage Congress is Andhra. But i think it is useless. Congress in Andhra has no mass leaders left, Most of them have left or on the way to leaving. In 150 seats Congress lost deposits

http://deccan-journal.com/content/andhr ... s-hopeless

[Yagnasri]

Allowing mafia member like Jairam Ramesh inside his office type issues and discussing AP t is the worst kind of stupidity on the part of AJ. If BJP wants to do something good AJ has to forget his friends in mafia. Mafia does not consider BJP as friend so why AJ is allowing access to mafia people inside his office while discussing the issues of AP.
Mafia queen still thinks that she can continue the cheating Telugu people. But she may face serious personal risk if she attends LS as AP MPs are in a very foul mood since mafia queen organized their beating in the LS itself last time. Last time Sandeep Dekshit threatened AP MPs in public saying that they can not live in Delhi and all that. Now he is not there in LS but his boss mafia queen is there to face the music.
Who know what will happen.

[ramana]

What about the modern Razakar Azharuddin who manhandled MPs in last Lok Sabha!

[Yagnasri]

I thought he lost his seat from Rajasthan. May be he is busy in organising IPL bettings. Mafia selected goonda type MP and Kamalnath organised the beating up with BJP under SS supporting beating of AP MPs. Let us hope nothing major happens this time.

[Vayutuvan]

Narayana Rao garu, what will happen? they will be lionized as modern day Bhagat Singhs of course.

[Yagnasri]

During agitation many suicides were shown as Aathma balidanam of poor and oppressed Telangana people. At least in one case a MCA student was killed so that agitation can be intensified. Now the dead are all considered as Amara veerulu as per the Telangana myth. Just like deaths after YSR death and Odarpu Yathra myth of Jagan.
Hyderabad during my childhood days ever used to be a Telugu place, We are expected to speak in urdu only. My mother still remember how Nizam police used to check people when as a child she used to visit her uncle who has employed by Nizam as teacher in Hyderabad.
Current wealth of the city is not something which can be perpetual and if all the investments are going to be in AP then it would be difficult for the city to sustain itself.

[ramana]

From the gulte site;

TRS Chief K Chandrasekhar Rao has sworn in as Chief Minister of Telangana state along with his 11-member Cabinet on Monday at Raj Bhvan.

TRS Ministers & Portfolios:

KCR - Chief Minister, Welfare, Electricity and all other portfolios not allotted to any Minister.

1) Mohammed Mahmood Ali - Deputy CM & Revenue Minister

2) T.Rajaiah - Deputy CM, Medical & Health Minister

3) Nayani Narasimha Reddy - Home Minister

4) Eetela Rajendar - Finance Minister

5) Harish Rao - Irrigation & Assembly Affairs Minister

6) K Tarakarama Rao - Information Technology & Panchayat Raj Minister

7) Pocharam Srinivas Reddy - Agriculture Minister

T Padma Rao - Excise Minister

9) P Mahendar Reddy - Transportation Minister

10) Jogu Ramanna - Forest & Environment Minister

11) Jagadeesh Reddy - Education Minister

Except it has three family members its not bad.
What is difference in Revenue, Finance and Excise ministries? And excise is the liquor licensing minstry aka excise tax collection?
Also is the Agriculture Minister related to late P Janardhan Reddy?


Also the MIM guy got big title and Revenue ministry. Finance which forumlates budgets is not under him.
Hope they give good impetus to Education.

Also noted that P Gopichand was invited to the swearing ceremony.

[ramana]

And critique of Soniaji's move to take credit for BJP-TDP moves to improve Andhra Pradesh

UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who unilaterally divided Andhra Pradesh by giving a raw deal to it, has now resorted to damage-conrtol steps. After disastrous performance in recent Lok Sabha polls across India and Assembly polls in both Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Sonia seems to have waken up to ground reality. She has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to grant of special category status to Seemandhra and execution of Polavaram multi-purpose irrigation project.

Why didn't UPA include many of the things in AP Reorganization Bill but made oral promises in the floor of the House? Why is Sonia now concerned about Seemandhra? Why outwent UPA government didn't even declare the amount of financial package to Seemandhra? Now that Modi and Chandra Babu going to grant Special Status to Seemandhra that too more than what UPA wanted to give (just 5 years), Sonia now wants to take credit. Ms Sonia, people of Andhra Pradesh are not going to trust Rahul, you at all. Rather than writing letters now, you should have made amendments to the AP Reorganization Bill 2013 in Parliament. It's too late now.

[Vayutuvan]

Sonia ji's breaking of silence now is strange to say the least. Why was this not made public - the terms of the division that is - before going to hustings?

One would have to be skeptical regarding whether Congress promised all this. Probably they are just going along with Modi's promise to CBN, but are trying to take credit by saying that they too had thought about these issues.

[ramana]

Hindustan Times as usual has glowing piece about Sonaiji's stern letter to Modi to implement her govt's promises!!!

Some one should tell her to shut up.
But then united AP has her psychophants (spelling intended)

Why cant KCR & CBN et al demand her RS members resign forthwith as they no longer represent the undivided state?

[Vayutuvan]

All of Congress High command's talk and acts are transparently self serving. Common people would see right through it.

[ramana]

Common people sholud demand their quitting RS as they no longer represent them. No ifs and buts.

[Rony]

Many opt for migration to pay commercial tax returns

Around 300 dealers, who used to pay their commercial taxes from Telangana before bifurcation, are expected to opt for filing returns from Visakhapatnam division. The assessees all over Andhra Pradesh with effect from June 2 were given an option to apply for fresh TIN specifying whether they wanted to file returns from Telangana or Seemandhra or from both States. As of now, 200 have given their option to file returns from Visakhapatnam division.

Visakhapatnam division, one of the leading divisions in collection of commercial taxes in undivided AP, had recorded a collection of Rs.1,294 crore during 2013-14. “With some firms based in our division opting for Telangana or both States, we are expecting more or less same amount of revenue this year,” Deputy Commissioner of Commercial Taxes T. Siva Sankara Rao told The Hindu.

He said the positive feature was that 87 from Secunderabad, 158 from Panjagutta and 78 from Abids divisions opted for Visakhapatnam division. However, he clarified that till the filing of returns scheduled to be done by July 20, they could not arrive at correct calculation.

Bifurcation apparently has division of revenue. For instance, Varun Motors, which files taxes to the tune of Rs.15 crore every month, is likely to pay Rs.8 crore in Visakhapatnam and Rs.7 crore in Telangana, Mr. Rao said. Among large tax payers (LTP), LG Polymers has opted for both States.

Similarly, Overseas Polymers has opted to shift to Telangana from residual State of AP. Among prominent LTPs who opted for both States to file their returns include Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, Coromandel International, Hindustan Zinc Ltd, MMTC, Vijay Nirman Nirmal Company Ltd.

Stating that TIN allotment was done online, he said new registration certificates could be downloaded. The department would also make an arrangement to launch the process of delivering the certificates by courier in a week. It will take a month to complete the process.

[Vayutuvan]

> Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, Coromandel International, Hindustan Zinc Ltd, MMTC, Vijay Nirman Nirmal Company Ltd.

All state govt./central govt. corps, I presume. What is the sentiment among the private firms? That is the key to figuring out which state govt. has industrialists' confidence.

[Rony]

Large stocks of natural resources can ensure Andhra Pradesh's development

[Lilo]

^
Video is not well thought out methinks - only focuses on Primary sectors like Commodities export and agroprocessing as if we are talking about some illiterate African colony - all this agrobusiness is happening and going expand naturally with little govt initiative anyway.

The need is to leverage the huge pool of Skilled labour to get the Manufacturing and Service sectors in a big spurt of expansion from the current levels.For this FDI is needed - in others words business friendly conditions for voluntary return of Black Money is required.

Teritiary Manufacturing and Service Industry is where solid govt initiatives are required, with regard to
>Tax exemption,
>Infrastructure - Cheap electricity(UMPPS,Nuclear Plants), Transport(Ports and Roads) ,
>Policy - Labour reform and Land aquisition

Engineering Industry - Machinery and Instruments, Metals fabrication,Building and Construction Materials, Chemicals Production, PVC and other plastic products ,Pharma, Petrochemicals from KG basin ,Shipping Industry,Iron & Steel.
Service Industry - ITES,Healthcare and Hospitality,Higher Education,Banking and Finance,Tourism.

Identify key sectors in above and specialize in them with goal of capturing world markets - using our cheap skilled labour costs.

All in all - aim to be the Guangdong of India focused on exporting products .

[Rony]

^^
Agree Lilo garu


On Uttarandhra

Uttarandhra in a State of Plenty, Penury

Uttarandhra (North Andhra), consisting of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam districts of the combined state (or Seemandhra now), is considered the most backward region in terms of socio-economic parameters. It is strange that everyone refers to the region extending from Visakhapatnam to Chennai as a future development corridor. Both most government officials and development experts consider Visakhapatnam city as part of North Andhra. But, two-and-a-half districts beyond it we have a region that abounds in natural resources with a 400-km coastline. It has a vast development potential with minerals and natural resources. Besides, it shares borders with the mineral-rich hinterland of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odissa. They would provide inputs for expansion of emerging manufacturing units along its coast. This is the region of ancient Madhya Kalinga with Buddhist monasteries, religious places, beautiful beaches and Eastern Ghat with 10 river systems. It is a surplus region if the riparian rights are legitimately considered.

The dominance of the advanced districts could be seen in terms of drawal of irrigation water from the rivers that depend upon the region’s Sabari, Sileru, Eleru etc. Polavaram project is planned on the basis of the surplus water of the above rivers, but the canals are planned to give drinking water only to Visakhapatnam.

The region consists of forests and the tribal areas have scarcity of cultivable land. Yet, most of the projects that need land are now being located here creating tensions in the region. It has the longest coast, almost half the total coastline in the state. But, no worthwhile project on the coast except the old port at Visakhapatnam is planned. The second major port for the state should have been located at Nakkapalli or some other place near Visakhapatnam, but it has been diverted elsewhere with the implicit consent of local politicians. However, the city of Visakhapatnam and Srikakulam are used as dumping grounds for pollutant industries like pharmaceuticals that are thrown out of Hyderabad. It seems the policy-makers have never thought of irrigation needs of the farmers and considered only the industrial requirements of new projects. Therefore, agriculture in the region has suffered a setback. Land holdings in the state indicate that 5 per cent of the people of six coastal districts (excluding North Andhra) own more than 52 per cent of the land in the region and if data are culled out in other districts of the state, the role of dominant contractors and politicians in the region stands exposed. The data show that the agricultural income of the districts in the region is the lowest with Rs 1,36,732 in Srikakulam district, Rs 1,70,609 in Vizianagaram district and Rs 2,49,976 in Visakhapatnam district.

The first industrial corridor was set up by the British keeping the natural harbour in Visakhapatnam and Garividi for its minerals. After Independence, the Government of India has located several public sector units, including the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) in Visakhapatnam city. Nothing has happened during the last two decades of liberalization except for locating the pollutant thermal and pharmaceuticals units. The per capita consumption of power in the region can be taken as an indicator of industrial growth in the region that remains the lowest in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram. The contribution of industry to district income is found to be the lowest in the districts of Vizianagaram and Srikakulam at Rs 2,57,867 and Rs 2,88,594 respectively during 2010-11.

The service sector has grown much faster than the others in Andhra Pradesh. Agricultural development supported by subsidised irrigation water and other inputs has allowed the coastal region to concentrate on higher education. In fact, a majority of engineering, medical and professional colleges in the private sector in the country are owned by the people of Coastal Andhra. Interestingly, almost all the colleges in the North Andhra are also held by them. Andhra University located in Visakhapatnam, according to some, is responsible for the initial educational progress of Coastal Andhra but did not help North Andhra. It has attracted political immigrants to represent North Andhra and contributed to the development of others.

The contribution of the service sector to SDP was `6,65,373 in Srikakulam district, `6,33,764 in Vizianagaram, the lowest in the state, and `23,05,551 in Visakhapatnam. Interestingly, East Godavari, the neighboring district of Visakhapatnam district, contributed as much as other developed districts in the state like Guntur, Krishna and some districts in Rayalaseema in recent years. But, North Andhra has remained the lowest in this area also.

Uttarandhra is a typical socio-economic conglomeration not found elsewhere as the people here belong to the unusual Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, accounting for 85 per cent of the total population. They need special protection from the rude competition from the developed regions. Further, representation of the locals in dominant political parties is marginal and outsiders (migrants) who are not very enlightened and broad- minded on the local issues have, in the recent past, started representing the region in the state and Union governments. As a result, the region beyond North of Bheemunipatnam is left without any development, except devastation.

The forest and unused land cover in the three districts is about 55 per cent, and the tribal population was 15 per cent of the combined state. If the socio-demographic parameters of North Andhra with the highest migration from the plains, including the fishermen of the coast are deliberated, majority are found devastated.

It is curious to note that development initiatives in the city of Visakhapatnam have further marginalised the locals and forced them to migrate to it. This is a unique situation where creation of additional privileges for the region is appropriated by others due to their advanced skills and manipulative talent, displacing the locals again. It is reported that 1.5 million people have migrated to Hyderabad occupying semi-skilled and casual jobs. They have become rootless, could be connected to their soil through inclusive policies of the proposed development package for the region. It is necessary to locate IIT, IIM, IISERC, Central University, Capital etc in Visakhapatnam as it has by now created adequate academic environments.

The entire region has small ports, jetties and other locations that once flourished in trade with East Asia. They can be re-designed both for shipping and tourist purposes. Keeping the hinterland and its natural resources in mind, agro-based industries, ICT and other MSME enterprises should be initiated with appropriate infrastructure to attract FDIs from the East.

The special package for backward region and the concessions for the new state should provide generous resources to create employment opportunities not only to engage the local youth, but also to offer prospects to the sons of the soil who have moved out. This would definitely create an atmosphere of inclusion not only with the developed regions but also outside the world, as a domain of destiny to regain its past splendor.

[Altair]

And critique of Soniaji's move to take credit for BJP-TDP moves to improve Andhra Pradesh

Ms Sonia, people of Andhra Pradesh are not going to trust Rahul, you at all. Rather than writing letters now, you should have made amendments to the AP Reorganization Bill 2013 in Parliament. It's too late now.

People from Seemandhra have a long memory when it comes to loosing money. This exercise is useless. The Congress account will remain 0 for foreseeable future.

[Lilo]

Now, a temple for Sonia Gandhi in Karimnagar

To express their gratitude to AICC president Sonia Gandhi for creating Telangana state, Congress leaders from the district constructed a temple for her in Mallial town.

The leaders installed a white marble statue of Sonia Gandhi and had the portraits of Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi on temple walls outside. The temple was formally declared opened on Monday by Jagtial legislator-elect T Jeevan Reddy. Those present included former MP Ponnam Prabhakar and former MLA Suddala Devaiah and others.

Ponnam Prabhakar said he called for construction of a temple for Sonia Gandhi while Andhra leaders had built a tomb for her for announcing separate Telangana state. He claimed that Congress leaders in Mallial took up the construction and they bought the bust sized statue made of Marble from Rajasthan. They could not install earlier due to enforcement of code of conduct during elections. “Sonia Gandhi is the spirit and inspiration for Telangana. She would remain in the hearts of Telangana people forever. Without her initiation, the Telangana state would not have become reality”, Mr. Prabhakar said. He also has plans to construct Sonia temples in each assembly segment in Karimnagar .

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/t ... 079483.ece

Sonia Gandhi Temple opened in Karimnagar coinciding with Telangana Formation Day on June 2nd.May be next will be a statue of Sonia on Tank Bund where (the destroyed) Krishna Devaraya's or Annamayya's statues used to stand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH6jVSf3BDk


Thankfully plans for another temple to Sonia as "Talli Telangana" near Hyderabad seems shelved for now -as the concerned person didnt get a ticket from "High Command" this election.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liJElLKu-VU

[Shanmukh]

Sonia Gandhi Temple opened in Karimnagar coinciding with Telangana Formation Day on June 2nd.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH6jVSf3BDk

Thanks, Lilo-garu. Does Sonia-mata have a Chiranjaneya kneeling before her? Also, is the temple to Silk Smitha nearby (IIRC, someone built a temple to Silk Smitha in AP)? Maybe the latter temple needs an upgrade so that it is larger and better than Sonia temple, keeping in view her better nature?

Also, someone should build another temple to the Patron Saint of Telangana, the Nizam and his able lieutenant, Kasim Rizvi.

[Lilo]

^
Nagesh garu,
You might be speaking of temples built for Khusboo,Namitha,Simran,Nagma etc in Tamizh lands ,afaik Silk Smitha didnt get any temple.

[Shanmukh]

^
Nagesh garu,
You might be speaking of a temple for Khusboo in Tamiz land - afaik Silk Smitha didnt get any temple.

I recall reading about a temple to Silk Smitha somewhere in AP a long time back (in the early 90s). Maybe I am mistaken.

[Vikas]

Is Telangana a lost cause for Indics for any forseeable future thanks to Temple lady ?

[devesh]

Lost cause no more than Andhra. In terms of encroachment by the Islamics and EJ's both are in the same boat. Neither have really started the way back. But in Telangana, the masks are off. Step 1 is done. Let's see how the reaction builds. In Andhra the thing to watch is will the EJ'S be forced to slow down under TDP or will they continue unabated? Keep in mind that when TDP was previously in power, they were slightly hostile to the type of anti - conversion measures that other BJP ruled states implemented.