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     Scallion Side Hero Username: Scallion Post Number: 2457 Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 69.125.197.38 Rating: N/A |
Times of India....... Jai NTR, Jai Jai TDP | ||
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source enti bro? aada genuince agitationay ledhu... fc, bc, minority, weaver, mason , volcano, paritala, took part in 69 .....  | ||
| Scallion Side Hero Username: Scallion Post Number: 2456 Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 65.217.188.20 Rating: N/A |
The Telengana campaign is fast acquiring the dimensions of a spontaneous caste upsurge. Although the present agitation was kickstarted by political party âthe Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) â the movementâs base is now gravitating to the numerous backward castes (BCs) who form the bulk of the population in the region. Left out of the political matrix and in the market for job and business opportunities, many among the BCs are looking at the campaign as a golden opportunity to gain from. "Students, women from self-employed groups, lawyers and intellectual are all jumping into the movement, though as of now it is still on the surface and cannot be said to have attained a self-sustaining dimension," an inspector general of police told TOI. "A flip side to liberalisation has been that the well-to-do today send their students to private universities and private engineering colleges. The majority of those who study in the state run universities are the BCs, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. In this slowdown there are no jobs and these students feel that a separate Telangana will be the panacea," a professor of the Osmania University (OU) said. That is the reason why the Osmania University in Hyderabad and Kakatiya University in Warangal are the hotbeds of the agitation. This is also the reason why the government is trying to forcibly vacate hostels of both these universities using anti-naxalite forces, commandos and central forces. The proliferation of the TV channels is helping spread the movement fast and dissiminate the message of Telangana, protest leaders say. The last major Telangana movement in 1969 in which 380 students died, was led by students and intellectuals. "These were students from the higher castes and intellectuals from the liberal establishment. But this time boys from the community of weavers, masons, potters, barbers, washermen and tailors all have joined. This makes them a potent force," a professor from the University of Hyderabad said. Members of the numerically small higher castes like Reddy would not be for a separate Telangana at a rational level, yet the feeling of exploitation by coastal Andhra migrants has grown so strong in the last fifty years that they too have back a separate state. "Its no longer an idealistic movement like that in 1969. It is now an in-your-face kind of agitationâ, said Janaki of Rani Rudrama Samkhya, a womenâs self-help group in Warangal. "We are covering 10-15 km in villages, mandal headquarters and towns by going on two-wheelers, tractors, autos to spread the separate statehood message. Itâs now or never," said backward caste Aikya Vedika leader Banda Prakash. "We have overwhelming support from students, government employees of all departments, advocates, private schools associations, coolies, teachers and women of selp groups," he added. "Telangana is sitting on a volcano now and the separate state issue cannot be dodged anymore," said associate president of Telangana Non Gazetted Officers Forum Paritala Subba Rao. "There is an emotional integration amongst the people of this region. It could lead to a major upsurge if no assurance is given," warned V L Narasimha Rao, who took part in the â69 movement. Jai NTR, Jai Jai TDP |
