Indian Politics

A Special Thanks from the bottom of my heart to 

Ravi Teja: Your valuable information, suggestions and hours of patience while kindly answering all my stupid questions were cardinal to this article.

Kali: For not complaining about the takku-takku sound as I typed all the while as she slept last night.

                          Politics-Plots,rumors and drama

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Ever wondered Why they say Politics is dirty?

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This post is 1,499 words long.

Politics and the ongoing issue of Separate state in Andhra Pradesh (AP) is all what everyone is talking about. Why not me? My opinion on this issue matters not. Politics isn't my cup of tea. Well even if it is...I yuck tea. But the plots and drama of Politics is so very AW-e-some, that I couldn't resist sharing this with every one of you.

So here goes the darker and mussy side of Indian Politics, Issue of separate states in AP and the perspective of a girl who still believes in the World being one big home to all the earthlets no matter what the boundaries say.

Note:The views said here are purely based on whatever I heard from sources I do trust and would dare not question. It’s up to you to believe them or not. If you find this offending or derogatory, I request you to correct me and not take this seriously.

The Crash

The representative of 77.7million (approx.) people dies in an air crash. His body is found after 24 hours.

Accident??  Or is it something else?

CM of a state travels in a plane not upto the mark, the weather forecast reports being ignored, the plane not being detected though it had a signal transmitter, and the dubious reports of the black box do suggest something more than an accident.

Who could that be? Rumors were and are it was somebody close to him. [Politics and Plots inseparable huh?!]

True so many love YSR. Why not? Most people who were genuinely poor or who either genuinely showed they were poor got scholarships, free health checkups & treatment , free education and all! It was easy money to some, it was money that truly saved some and made their lives. But the money that went into wrong hands is surmountable.

Aftermath

“I wanna be the CM”, “I deserve to be the CM”,” It’s my right to be the CM”, Yawped Jagan, YSR’s son. A few outburst from his supporters lasted for a few days.  The suspense on ‘Who is the next CM’ grew and died in a few days. Lady Luck (??) followed Rosaiah (considered a right hand to YSR) and he got the golden chance which he would have not even dared to dream.  Someday, "I will be the CM" grinned Jagan.

“Peace restored”, thought Sonia Gandhi. Manmohan Singh is the Prime Minister of Inida….just reminding.

Now or Never

KCR-The leader of TRS( a party that profoundly wants Telangana as a separate state) who fights for the cause intermittently realizes it’s time once again to raise protests for not giving Telangana as a separate state, as was promised long ago by Sonia Gandhi herself. (Remember Manmohan Singh again…he deserves to be in our thoughts.)

KCR didn’t want to lose the opportunity for the good of all People of Telangan(?) as the govt. of AP being in a recovery mode with the death of YSR was prone to get weaker and yield to their demands(?)

I will Fast onto death, he said. And after a few days of excessive publicizing he is arrested on the day he said he do start his fast. What next wondered all the people of AP. Things sure were getting interesting, thanks to the numerous (14)regional news channels that exaggerate everything they think would give them a better rating.(Come on ! Don’t ever blame them, they gotta survive the tough times too and a bit of exaggeration is okay.)

And the News spread and KCR is profoundly supported by students (not everybody-NOT ME at least) of Osmania University of Hyderabad.

The Power shift

40 hours of fast(??) and KCR breaks his fast with a glass of juice and rumors say he got rich by 500 crores of rupees that day. Few of the students he succeeded to inspire and lure with the prospective of employment, found this unacceptable. See they just caught this fantasy to agitate for a different state from him and they did not want to see him back off. Few warned him, few didn’t care but now what all mattered to them was Telangana.  

The warnings and the agitation SCARED inspired KCR to continue his fast. Heard him say he drank the juice because they gave him sedatives in his saline.(lol) Rumors heard-KCR’s Son and son-in-law forced him to continue the fast.(Plots and Politics,inseperavle.Huh)

Here shifts the power from the politicians to the students. A few suicides and agitations in new innovative forms everyday for 10 days follow. Women, Children, Lawyers and people from different backgrounds from the region of Telangana support in unison for a separate state. Unrest, confusion, closure of all colleges in Telangana regions and disturbances follow. An awkward question of Do I belong to Andhra or Telangana regions arises in the minds of people like me and many.( I am an earthlet. Love has no boundaries, I keep telling myself.)

Victory

Yup! Student power wins. Sonia Gandhi Says okay! And Chidambaram announces the approval of the govt. to divide AP late night (reminds of the way India got independence). Most or Few (I have no idea) People of Telangana are happy with the news and celebrate.

The fun Rumor here-Chidambaram (I find him cute and looks intelligent, isn’t he?) wants to divide AP so that Tamil nadu remains the largest state in Southern part of Inida.

Reactions

Normalcy is restored to Telangana[?],the strikes and riots end. Plans for a separate state take the front seat in the minds of all the supporters of Telangana.

Now shifts the strikes and riot kinda situation to all other parts of AP.

 Rayalseema and Andhra the two other major regions of AP are perplexed. Some say lets divide AP to 4 states-Telangana,Rayalaseema,North Andhra and the Coastal Andhra.

Coastal Andhra wants a United Andhra Pradesh.

Rayalaseema wants to be declared as a state too or lets all be together is what it says.

North Andhra wants to be a different state too if the partition happens.

Telangana says it wants a free state and Hyderabad belongs to it.

Many MP’s and MLA’s irrespective of the party they belong to resign disappointed with the proposed bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh to form separate Telangana state. If the Congress loses its MLAs and MPs in this way, its gonnna lose it power in AP and majority at the central level.

The central govt. is just buying some time and may not actually separate AP.( ? )

What next?

If we divide?

# A metropolis city, no matter who developed it (ppl of Andhra or Telangana) is gonna be ruined.

# The IT industry will lose any hope of development (if any) if the partition happens.

# The Coastal Andhra region will have serious setbacks, as it would not be getting Coal and water and other resources from the other regions. (May be it will turn out to be another Telangana-deprived of opportunities to develop?)

# The real estate will have a blow and the consequences are scary enough.

# The partition will only initiate and attract more partitions to happen throughout India.

# More politicians will get the opportunity to show case their dirty plots and drama as they get richer and richer.

What if we don’t divide?

# The protests for Partition would continue and may only take a grosser form.

# The Telangana region may remain as it is neglected, hopeless and lost.

Best Solution?

# More sensible Leaders who understand the problem and who not only compose the solution but also execute it.(Especially Telangana region needs one.)

# Electing the right leaders and giving the power to those unselfish people(RARE-I Know) who truly work for the people.

# To let the things calm down and think of a peaceful solution.

My Priceless thoughts

# The region of Telangana was neglected and the solution doesn’t lie in dividing and making new issues out of an old issue.

# US OF A warned its citizens not to go to AP and the Americans here to not go to places near the assembly, Parliamnet, Ameerpet, etc. (Imagine the kinda of secured feelings we are giving them.)

# Patriotic movies (though there are few) should be often aired on our regional News Channel.

# If I were a Britisher, I would have been laughing whole heartedly.

# How does a child feel when her/his parents separate? I feel the same being born in Andhra region and brought up in Telangana region.

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Major Sources: NEWS Channels, Internet, Ravi Teja, Mommy dearest.

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P.S.

Who doesn't love rumors and Plots? I do. :~P


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Edited on 13/12/2009: If you find Politics or this issue still intriguing read the following post on updates about this issue. Lets see where all this is going to end. The word count has not been updated lol :P