Eminent personalities from all walks of life and from different regions of the State appealed to the students and youth of Telangana not to commit suicide for furthering the movement for a separate State and also urged the Central government not to delay a decision on the issue.
Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, former judge of the Supreme Court Justice B. Sudershan Reddy, Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad Ch. Hanumantha Rao, former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court Justice A. Lakshman Rao, former DGP P. Ramulu, senior nephrologist A. Gopala Kishan, senior consultant psychiatrist Majid Khan and MLC Chukka Ramaiah, former IT Advisor to AP Government T. Hanuman Chowdary, among others, said that suicide by even a single youngster is a great social tragedy.
“The mark of true courage, and of a correct moral compass to touch the conscience of the people of this great nation, is to relentlessly fight for the political rights of the people of Telangana. Suicide by a youngster is an abandonment of that fight, it reduces the strength of the movement,” they said in their appeal.
Youth are driven to commit suicide as they do not see any hope of achieving a separate State of Telangana and with their action they impact the lives of thousands of people, senior consultant psychiatrist Dr. Majid Khan said.
The statement was also signed by former judges of the AP High Court Justice Upendralal Waghray and Justice Sardar Ali Khan, founder director of CCMB P.M. Bhargava, ex-NIMS Directors Kakarla Subba Rao and Dr. Prasada Rao, chairman CARE Hospitals Dr. B. Somaraju, Lt General (retd) A.R.K. Reddy, former chief secretary Narendra Luther and senior journalist Potturi Venkateswara Rao.
Keywords: Telangana issue
The last statement "lack of inherent resources" reflects on your total
lack of knowledge of the issue. Please do not comment on such issues
without making some study. You have to go back atleast a hundred years
to understand it all, under what false promises they have annexed
hyderabad dominion into India. Why people of kashmir still have
special rights but TElangana people who merged under same conditions
have been looted for 60 years. Whole India depended on T coal for
power for ages. They shut down production in T regino for a month and
whole of South and central india is reeling in utter power shortage.
How come T resources are used for whole of India, but T people dont
have right for resources from other parts of India. T resources were
looted to feed india. Go get some knowledge on the issue and come back
to comment. Telangana could as well have existed as a prosperous
nations..if only it had some leader ..who is worth it.
This agitation for the Andhra Pradesh state bifurcation has been on for about four decades. Except for a major part by the vested political interests (some Rao or Reddy is looking to be the chief in order to enrich themselves and their clan), there is very little sense in creating a separate Telangana. That region being poor from the point of view of agricultural and industrial output, it would keeping looking for economic assistance from the center for ever. This would be much like the reservation policy in India. The pool of casts covered by this policy and the percentage of reservation keeps increasing. If the people in the region are complaining about lack of development, they can not blame no one except for themselves, because a few of the chief ministers of the state did come from that region but did nothing. Therefore what chance they would have for development as a separate state with no inherent resources?
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