In due course, once the President sends the proposal to the State, the Assembly can recommend the following!
1. Conduct a people's referendum in Telangana. If a large majority prefer splitting, go ahead and form a new state.
2. Since it makes sense geographically, keep Hyderabad in Telangana. Make it the joint capital for three years.
3. Pass on 13/23 share of revenues generated from Hyderabad to Seemandhra for the next ten years to build a new capital city; the Centre to contribute an equal amount.
4. A GoM can work out a fair formula for dividing other resources such as water and power.
5. Make usage of words like "settlers" a criminal offence. Every Indian citizen has equal rights all over India.
i am totally opposing the Bifurcation., let me Answer the question first..
ReplyDelete1.what is the cause for separation????
2.question is; why TRS party (separation)slogan party didn't got majority victory in 2004 and 2009 election.???
Lakshmi: The stalemate cannot continue for long. Common people will suffer. We need to move forward.
DeleteYou cannot force an unwilling family member to stay together. If indeed the Telangana people prefer to stay together, and the leaders have been misguiding, the referendum will confirm.
Since people from all the 23 districts contributed to the development of Hyderabad, it is fair to take a share of Hyderabad's revenues to build a new capital, in case the people from 10 districts prefer a separate state.
Agree with you sir. This stalemate cant continue and hamper both the new states. Telangana politicians should take more effort and settle all the issues with Seemandhra . The mistake is on both sides.
ReplyDeleteMy two cents on how to move ahead .
http://vams.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/andhra-pradesh-way-forward/
Hope i make some sense . Pls go through once.
That's a well argued post, Vamsi. Quite balanced, despite your stated bias in the opening disclaimer.
DeleteSir, to me, point 5 makes the most sense. Anything other than that subverts the idea of India as a country.
ReplyDeleteTo me, the larger question is - will this division become a precedent? We have Sushri Mayawati asking for division of UP into four states. Then there are voices being raised in Assam too calling for a similar division of the state. Where should we draw the line in this matter? Are referendums the best way to go about it?
Speaking of referendums (and plebiscites), there's a long pending one up north too...
I think so, Abhishek. Referendum is a practical way forward when one is not sure if the decision being taken (or kept in abeyance) is misguided by the vocal few with vested interests...
DeleteMy issue with referendums is the basic assumption that the participants know what's best for them and / or for their families, communities etc., that the participants take both the short term and long term view into account. I'm not sure this basic assumption holds true in times of such tumult where individual opinions are surely going to be swayed by what the vocal few have got to say.
DeleteI do understand that saying no to referendums might lead to another standstill in this case. But maybe a GoM which makes extensive field visits to understand the situation on the ground and then submits its recommendations in this matter is another viable option.
pretty reasonable proposal.
ReplyDeleteThanks OPG :)
DeleteI have some rather confusing questions. To the best of my knowledge the Telengana agitation has been ongoing for something like 20 yrs and more. More than once cities have shut down and a fairly large number have committed suicide. When agitations start they are seen to be with huge crowds. Now even if one were to assume that some minority view is being projected the movement to sustain for so long and with so much emotion is a tad difficult for me to accept. So whether there should be a referendum at this stage is a bit late since in my opinion that should have been done at a time when things were relatively peaceful and emotions not running high. If I were the PM I would announce such a referendum at short notice, when peace prevails and get a vote on the same.
ReplyDeleteToday it is water under the bridge. Good bad or ugly the deed is done (albeit with complete mismanagement) and I think the sensible way forward is to find a way to implement the decision.
Given our precarious finance situation, the vested interests who would want to grab land before the location of the capital is announced I am completely unsure as to how we can implement a sensible plan.
The only way to have unleashed competition amongst some of the the vested interests was to have announced the new capital alongwith the formation of the state. But that again is water under the bridge.
I would have preferred to make Hyderbad/Secunderabad a union territory and then asked Seemandhra to build a new capital in 5 yrs time with 50/50 funding from the UT and the central govt. The UT would revert to Telengana at the stroke of 5 years and the funding would stop which would then force Seemandhra to show efficiency in action.
Ravi: Sustained agitations are certainly likely to have the mandate of majority people, but quite often the vocal few call the shots and the indifferent majority are silent.
DeleteMy Point No 1 is recommended keeping in mind that the water is already under the bridge, as well as the reactions in Seemandhra to the CWC / Cabinet decision. Announcement of a referendum might buy peace, and is one way to break the stalemate. The date could be a month or two away, with public debates and media highlighting different perspectives during this period before people vote...
Seemandhra is best advised to develop three or four major hubs, besides one administrative capital city.
Dear Sir,
ReplyDeleteRegarding your five point formula
All the resources belong to this country and not any particular state or group of people and moreover there was a scheme to connect the major rivers of India so that the floods and droughts can be balanced and YES anyone using settlers should be penalized as till the time we won't value our nation as a whole we can't have a mutual respect for each other and our nation as well.
The central government has done huge mistake by dividing the state our leaders (Vallabh bhai Patel,L.B. Shastri n many more) worked hard for a unified INDIA and we are just going against the dream state of India and their virtue just to fulfill their own political ambitions.
These things would never make sense to me as an individual, be it any political party doing it.