Classic Example Of Vote Bank Politics

[Anta Assamey]

[img]http://www.andhraheadlines.com/g11/news/la/117892.jpg[/img][color=#000000]Hyderabad, Aug 1: [/color][color=#000000]“The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency”[/color]

[color=#000000]So the decision has been taken finally. Telangana was probably never ordained to be part of Andhra Pradesh. The demand for separation started when equitable distribution of development gains was not delivered after the Telangana slice of Nizam’s Hyderabad state consented to merge with linguistic Andhra. At the same time, common language – the raison d’être for the creation of states in India – was not glue strong enough to keep different parts of the state together. The UPA’s decision today, endorsing the separate state of Telangana, is only acknowledgement of this reality. The issue was as much about identity as about compatibility and neither was satisfied by the existing situation.[/color]

[color=#000000]The people’s demand for a separate Telangana has been long and unceasing for the last 60 years which, after much ebbing and flowing, seems to have found its culmination in the 30 July announcement. And as such it should be welcomed.[/color]

[color=#000000]The main reason for the frustration which KCR effectively used through emotional blackmail and the Congress now hijacked was governance. And you cannot expect the crooked political system to deliver in governance. And that problem will exist in the new state too. The Telangana people have kept complaining for 50 years over Andhrites, now they will start complaining among themselves, since the reason for granting the statehood is not that the Congress respected their sentiments but it put its political interests above the aspirations.[/color]

[color=#000000]However, the point of posting this article is not to analyze whether Telangana people got what they had been aspiring for long or would they continue with their complaining even after getting the state, but to ponder whether it is a logically sound or unsound decision taken by the Congress.[/color]

[color=#000000]When Digvijay Singh, while announcing the division of the state, said that it was not a political decision, he made a ridiculous claim since the timing of the announcement is unmistakable, and the alacrity with which the issue has been handled is clearly not without an electoral design.[/color]

[color=#000000]The sudden decisiveness to grant statehood does speak of an electoral consideration in the next election that could be a toss-up; no opinion polls have painted the Congress and UPA-II in good hues so far.[/color]

[color=#000000]Therefore, the case of Telangana can be taught in political science/Business management classes around the world as a classic example of 'Vote Bank Politics' and private entrepreneurship.[/color]

[color=#000000]It's a lesson in entrepreneurship. A small time passport agent and visa broker turned petty politician in a big regional political party was discontented with the opportunities for his political growth presented by the party. He was greedy to grab a plum and powerful post. But the arrogant leader of the big regional party, unwary of his political ambitions, confined him to deputy speaker position. [/color]

[color=#000000]The political consumerist identified a quiescent problem, built a catalyst around it, worked hard to ignite passions, divided people, made hate speeches, disturbed peace and did not rest (except for long breaks in his farmhouse to evolve more strategies to consolidate his political ambitions), until his dreams are realized. The small but wily political investment he made provided political career to his daughter, nephew, and his whole family, so much so that his NRI son returned to India finding greener pastures in this career. But, before his dreams could be fulfilled, his once small idea is being hijacked by the grand old party of Indian nation which is in a complete mess because people have been rejecting its shenanigans and worried over its own existence. [/color]

[color=#000000]The above political story should be taught in entrepreneurial schools all over the world.[/color]

[color=#000000]For the grand old party of the Indian politics, Telangana problem is massive indeed.Damned if it does, damned if it doesn’t. It is about the political survival of the party in the only southern state where it had a distinct advantage over its political rivals not long ago.[/color]

[color=#000000]The Congress leadership realizes that its credibility has been nose diving rapidly in many other states and it is all set to lose the next general elections in Andhra Pradesh, divided or undivided. That explains the reason behind the decision in giving a go ahead to the separate state of Telangana.[/color]

[color=#000000]The Congress party swung back and forth in the last three and a half years since it first announced the initiation of the process of state formation in December 2009, but finally fell to political expediency. It is clear that the Congress wants to win at least half of the 33 seats it had won in the 2009 polls in the State.[/color]

[color=#000000]Congress moves to poke the TRS about its merger promise even as it hijacked KCR’s monopoly over Telangana with the sudden announcement, and the underlying need to neutralize Jagan Reddy and a pestering Chandrababu Naidu in the run-up to the 2014 polls, also mirror the politics behind the decision.[/color]

[color=#000000]The veiled threat reminder by Digvijay to TRS to it's promise of merger immediately after the announcement of Telangana, exposed the game that Congress took this decision to limit its losses in the battle of 2014.But in the pursuit of votes it has failed to see the reason that it is doomed if it has done it and doomed even if had not done it. With an eye on mere 17 Lok Sabha seats it had taken this politically sensitive and impulsive decision, notwithstanding it being very shrewdly calculated one, with wide ranging ramifications in the future.[/color]

[color=#000000]But it has already lost the war, and any amount of posturing saying that it was a politically expedient decision will not help, as, the day a democratically responsible Government starts taking decisions based on its survival it is doomed and it would be evident in the coming polls. [/color]

[color=#000000]Thus, the campaign for the 2014 elections is going to be by far the most interesting this State has ever seen. The leaders from the Seemandhra region, who had become rather complacent in the recent months, are now set to raise a fresh battle cry, but it remains to be seen whether the preventive strategies that the Congress may have planned will subdue them.[/color]

[color=#000000]Since there is still no clarity as to who should look for their political stakes in which part, it will be strategic politics that will take precedence over long-term development goals. [/color]

[color=#000000]Meanwhile, people in the three regions of the present Andhra Pradesh will continue to be at a loss[/color]

[bindazking]

kashtam baa.. intha sadavatam..

[tom bhayya]

[Anta Assamey]

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