Anta Assamey Posted July 10, 2013 Report Posted July 10, 2013 [img]http://www.andhraheadlines.com/g11/news/la/116971.jpg[/img]Hyderabad, July 10: [b]“Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other."[/b] The key is not having a problem, but taking a timely decision to solve it. A wise person takes a decision at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing, but only at different times. While the wise escape the consequences of delaying, the fool faces the folly of delaying the things. The congress high-command seemed to be facing the fool’s fate in dealing with Telangana issue. The impact of the fool’s fate is being felt with a virtual divide and a conflicting scenario among its own leaders from different regions. The Congress is a divided house over division of the state. The people of Andhra Pradesh, at least those who keenly observe television news every day, have got used to the raucous tu-tu-main-main (blame game) that passes for debate over Telangana. Politicians speaking of their point of view on Telangana don’t just opine but shout, scream, Yell and indulge in blame game as if they were not on the way to find a road map to solve the issue, but on the course to create a battle ground to settle scores. The AP politicians are least concerned to address the [b]“deep rooted hatred [/b]among various regions, of which they had all been [b]“significant collaborators”[/b] cutting across Party affiliations. [b]The manner in which the subject “Telangana” is being handled is no more an inspiring lesson for democracy.[/b] For the faithful, there is no truth bigger than Telangana’s destined future as a separate state. It is but natural for those who advocate for a united Andhra to opine that [b]“Telangana will not happen, worry that it might happen and agonise what will happen”[/b].Hence, in their agony they to have equal democratic space as T-Congress leaders have in voicing the concerns of their constituencies they represent. After all they too belong to the same political species of which T-Congress leaders belong to. As politicians they indulge in politics only, if not they are not fit to be in the political business. So, the anti-Telangana protagonists and their efforts to stall the formation of Telangana are always going to be a biggest challenge to T-Congress leaders, so is their own effort to alter the perception of the Telangana people over the sincerity of the efforts of the Congress High-command to concede Telangana. Therefore, the choice for Telangana Congress leaders is whether to counter the moves of anti-Telangana forces or to alter the perception of Telangana people, who still suspect the sincerity of the Congress, to rally their support towards what the Congress high-command is doing or not doing in finding a solution to the problem in order to consolidate their own political future which is at stake due to the continued ambivalent stand of their high-command.When said to counter the moves of anti-Telangana forces it doesn't mean to confront them with war of words, but to draw equal strategies to impress upon the high-command on the need to negate the moves of anti-Telangana forces. This time around, unlike in December 2009, when Congress sent signals through Digvijay Singh that it may finally take a call on Telangana, things are looking surprisingly calm, but with an undercurrent of trouble brewing. Every one is hoping that Congress would not have taken the decision to take a final call, if it had not done its homework well. One can percieve a positive move, although due to political compulsion, that the Congress high-command has hinted by directing the state Congress leadership to come out with road maps on both the consequences of keeping the state united and bifurcated. In doing so it wants its leaders of all the regions of AP to sit down and arrive at a compromise formula, if not complete consensus so that it can become a basis for Union government to work out an amicable solution to the protracted problem. However, there seems to be no effort from any side to convene a meeting to reconcile diffrences and to arrive at an amicable formula to be presented before high-command to make things easy for it toarrive at a solution. Instead, leaders of different regions are evolving their own strategies to outsmart each other. Here, the onus lies on T-Congress leaders since it is their problem to achieve Telangana. But with reports of united andhra movement is slowly picking up once again, it has to be seen whether Congress will genuinely work towards assuaging the concerns of Andhras in the event of bifurcation or will it simply go ahead just like last time and result in chaos. Then there was full three years before elections for parties to fall, rise, bounce back, but this time with elections not even a year away, it has to be seen whether Congress will stabilize AP or push AP into gutter once again! Given the above background, the T-Congress leaders would do a great service for the cause of Telangana, if they do not indulge in blame game and accuse their colleagues of other regions of indulging in activities to stall the formation of Telangana, like what Madhuyaskhi did in threatening to employ the CBI to settle scores with anti-Telangana forces. While Yaskhi’s statement not only confirms the reputation of the CBI being a pet dog of the Congress which is directed to bark at the opponents as part of vendetta politics, but also helps to provoke the seemandhra leaders to toughen their stand against Telangana state, thereby create a 2009 like situation and make things more complicated for his high-command to take a call on Telangana. The overriding feature of the campaign so far is, be it from the vanguards of Telangana movement or from the advocates of United AP, has been one of unrelenting negativity through hollow noises, empty rhetoric and political antics. Then is there any way out for these beleaguered T-Congress MPs? First of all they should come out of this attitude of exhibiting knee jerk reactions to what the anti-Telangana forces are indulging in and concentrate on their own strengths to influence their high-command to concede Telangana. They should remember that their colleagues of other regions too need to address the concerns of people of their regions to safeguard their political future. Failing to do so and seeking refuge under accusing seemandhra leaders of stalling the formation of Telangana would only amount to exposing their own weakness that they could do nothing to outsmart seemandhra leaders in their efforts, than just indulge in political slugfest. Even as everyone was expecting a solution to the Telangana tangle to emerge shortly, AICC AP party affairs incharge Digvijay Singh indicated today(08/07/2013) that there would be no time frame for announcing the solution contradicting his earlier timeframe of within ten days. This fresh statement is seen as a ploy by the High Command to delay solution to the tangle in view of the resignations that began in the Andhra region. The more T-Congress leaders provoke their counter-parts in other regions, the more rigid they become in their efforts to stall Telangana making things difficult for high-command to take any decision. They should also realise on how far is the slugfest of identity politics going to push Congress high-command in taking an early call in finding a solution? Leaders of all the three regions of AP are in a competition to prove that they are most loyal to the idea of their respective stands on separate Telangana and united AP. The Congress high-command is making serious error in giving into chuvanism of identity politics. There can be little doubt the leaders of all the regions are being opportunistic, trying to gain maximum political mileage out of the Telangana issue. We are a nation which goes into periodic bursts of hysteria of identity politics but usually these are not based on anything but sentiment. Regional politics ought not to be taken simply to consider votes and seats. Those who aspire for a separate state should not push for another confrontation with the colleagues of other regions and it is not the way to go about. And the biggest suffrers would be Telangana people only. But, unfortunately, it isn’t same for Andhra Pradesh politicians despite their acts truly getting terrible in the state. Neither, the people that support the ideals or rather idiocies of these politicians are bothered to re-evaluate them as they are [b]“mired in emotions and sentiments”.[/b]
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