Strong protest by T NRIs at JP meeting

Lok Satta, chief Jaya Prakash is in the USA attending meeting. Local NRIs from Virginia and Washington DC area protested at his meetings.

T NRIs stated that JP lacks vision and understanding of Telangana issues and their aspirations for demerger of Telangana State. They said JP’s ignorance is very clear based on the report he submitted to Sri Krishna Committee. JP could not understand and differentiate Telangana aspirations and their genuine 54 yrs old struggle from politics as he thinks Telangana issue was politically motivated.

As we all know, Telangana people never wanted to join and were not happy with the forcible alliance, conditional merger with Andhra State from the day of Andhrapradesh inception. Mere recommendations of restoring 1975 presidential orders and during the question hour, Telangana NRIs pointed out about his misquoting “no evidence of discrimination against Telangana in irrigation, jobs and state government’s resource allocations”, which Telangana NRIs said is a blatant lie.

They also said that Lok Satta’s Sri Krishna committee report failed to represent or even mention Telangana people’s opinion and thus JP lost moral grounds to represent Telangana.

They questioned his power decentralization and local rule theory and why that would not be applicable to Telangana. This contradicts with Lok Satta’s fundamentals. They also asked why Lok Satta would not support Telangana demerger, if it does not make any difference to his party and he does not care about it.

Telangana NRIs questioned about his achievements as an MLA of Kukatpally constituency and also asked about progress in implementation of idealistic theories such as removal of corruption.

JP welcomed new leadership to work under him on a question about one man shows in most of the political parties. Telangana NRIS also asked him about why Telangana people’s dream of reinstating their state is different from their Andhra separation struggle in 1952. In fact, Telangana situation was much better than then Andhra separation and fight for Madras city. Telangana NRIs reminded him that Hyderabad State was an independent state from 1948 to 1956 within Indian Union and was merged with Andhra State against the wishes of Telangana people and Fazal Ali Commissions recommendations. They said Telangana struggle cannot be compared with any other state demands within India as it was an illegal merger.

JP said every problem can be addressed by democratic means but failed answer why those democratic means such as gentlemen’s agreement, various committee recommendations and the December 9th, 2009 initiative of Government of India failed to address longstanding Telangana issue.

Telangana NRIs pointed out that JP was not willing to listen to others point of view which was very clear based on his comments on how others could not convince him or he could not convince the questioning parties as he already set his mind about this.

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