Jai Bolo Telangana, Three cheers to Shankar

News pulse, Politics | admin | January 29, 2011 at 3:20 pm

The saga of making this movie is like the story of Telangana itself. I was under the mistaken impression that the youth of this land is too addicted to movies and losing valuable time in this inconsequential exercise. Of late I came to realise that movies are the medium for the youth and it is their social idiom, a tool of social communication.

The recent struggle of the Telangana youth in blocking SA movies and forcing the censor board to unshackle the Jai Bholo Telangana for general release; and the passion and effort of the young director Shankar is evidence that Telangana youth is politicised and radicalised enough. They will not rest till they run their course of achieving telangana. No force in India can stop formation of Telangana.

Telangana bore the yoke for 60 years. Thanks to students and KCR for bringing the struggle to this stage. Gaddar’s participation has rendered a sort of completion to the structure and formation of the struggle. Jai bolo Telangana is the audio visual portfolio of this reality.

Where do we go from here? Once, KCR told in an interview that a senior IAS officer who was a co-passenger in a flight, had been a student leader in separation struggle for Haryana and that the media and Punjabis were spreading canards till the last minute to derail the formation of Haryana state. He advised KCR to be vigilant till the end. This is exactly what is needed at this juncture. Any laxity in the vigil and misstep will be counterproductive.

The soccer legend Diego Maradona’s strength was in his timing and controlling and varying the speed of the ball as an attacker and he always had the exclusive possession and the initiative with the ball. Telangana, KCR and TRS have the possession of the ball since last 10 years and exclusively since last one year. Congress always tried to steal it, whether by marshalling all its forces in the MP by-election in Karimnagar or KKR immediately accepting the resignation of the TRS MLA’s, Ratcha Banda, or obstacles created to our movie. Always At the end of their subterfuge Telangana emerged with added grit and steel. KCR is our Diego Maradona, Captain of our ship now. The structure and dynamic of the agitation is built so thoroughly that victory will be ours. We travelled from Mahboob-abad to Mahboob-nagar. Look at the spontaneity of Telanganites at Mahboob-nagar in disrupting chief minister’s meet. The urge for Telangana has become societal and cultural. Kanshiram once said that in the democratic politics of India one should have money, mafia and media. We shall build the street power to silence scum like Jaggareddy, Mukesh and Danam. We have Raj TV .We should complete acquiring our strategic assets of media by starting our very own news paper. Each one of us should generously contribute monies to the agitation in a legal way (like gifting a purse to Shankar).

The arsenal we built during last one year is phenomenal. It is like that of Pandavas during the “Agnatha vasam”. The students of the universities are fully charged up. The lawyers are in the forefront acting as rapid deployment force like they did at the censor board. Every village is raring to show its strength. It has shown what will be the outcome for congress if it misbehaves. Non-cooperation with the government, and boycotting andhra goods are the arsenal with which “SA’s Lagulu thadusthai”. Look at the boards put up in front of Andhra companies like heritage foods saying “Memu Telanganaku Anukoolame”.

There are only 5th and 6th options of SKC left for central government to go to. 6th will be as unwelcome to Andhra as much as 5th. If 6th is implemented (with constitutional protection) it will only help the kleptocratic and crony capitalistic SA elite but the andhra commoner will be unhappy. Common Andhrite will start separate andhra agitation seeking capital with in their territory. Case in point is how Lagadapati was slapped by a commoner in Krishna district. It is all win-win for us. With power and posturing we can tip Centre in our favour. Hence do not despair; ultimately, we can even go nuclear by KCR and Gaddar going on hunger strike, if it comes to that.

I do not think things will come to that pass. We should not jump the gun needlessly. Just trust KCR and follow him. In all probability Chidambaram will take the process of Telangana formation further by re-announcing it shortly. In the highly unlikely event of Telangana not being given willingly, it will be taken forcefully. In the process we will bury congress six feet deep along with TDP.

Finally three cheers to Shankar, the cultural comandante of Telangana who has moved the struggle for Telangana forward.

Courtesy – MK Rao, thank you for sharing.

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