The demand for Telangana is on the boil. Actually, it has simmered to jolt out a knee jerk reaction from the Government. Not that anything else could be expected from the leaders in power.
Separate state or no separate state; that is not the question I am asking. The question I want to ask is why does the Government always act after there is a simmering state of lawlessness and instability. The demand for Telangana has been simmering for three decades now. Why now when there have been such violent protests and as always damage to public property that the government has woken up?
The reason to create Telangana or for that matter all these other states whose demands have suddenly cropped up all over again now is secondary. There are enough ways to uplift these regions by staying attached to the states they are with right now. But, there is no political will. Neither at the center nor at the state levels. It is all a move to gain more and more political mileage.
The same so called leaders(KCR etc.) who are fasting unto death now for the apparent freedom and independence of the people will never look back at them after their party gains supremacy in that state. I come from a state that was created out of Assam in 1971 and I know for a fact that nothing extraordinary has been achieved in Meghalaya apart from more communal feelings in society.
Now, boosted by the Telangana knee jerk fiasco demands for separate Gorkhaland, Vidharbha etc. etc. have started cropping up. It has all turned out to be a big joke of sorts. You tend to hear a new name by the hour.
The Government has hammered down its own foot by giving in for the demand for Telangana. Now, such lawlessness will appear in so many other parts of the country. Will the Government give into all of those demands as well?
Then the children in schools who already have enough on their plate will just need to learn the names of a few more states and their capitals. And, also maybe we will have a few more Madhu Koda's who was the honourable Chief Minister of a relatively new state Jharkhand.And, also we may just pressurize our already beleaguered funds with some more High Courts and some more Legislative Assemblies.
But the question is when will we finally get what we actually vote for; good governance?
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