Three Lessons from Telangana Agitation

If you ask me to describe Telangana agitation in one sentence, I will say "Operation Success, but Patient Dead". KCR and other politicians are very successful in taking the agitation to the hearts of the Telangana people, but they have chosen the easy method to do so, ‘blame the others’ and create regional feelings. As the basic rules of physics work for the human life as well, this created a strong opposition from the other parts of the state, making the Telanagana issue a much more complex one.

So the first lesson: Avoid blaming. Blaming only serves to agitate and increase the intensity of the anger. Blaming will not solve problems.

In this 21st century, what KCR should have been done is actually to work with few intellectuals in Telangana as well in the other regions, and see how the two different regions would benefit if they were separated, may be better utilizing the natural resources as well as developing industries at various places instead of just accumulating these in Hyderabad alone etc. Instead KCR and others have taken offensive methods and became heroes in their region but achieved zero for the region. If there is a one big reason for not getting Telangana state that is the way the movement has been taken up. If at all Telangana is given a s separate statehood, this would be for political benefit and will never be on merits.

The second lesson for us is heroes cannot achieve much in this 21st century; only teams can do wonders.

The politicians are for building the parties not for the state. This is rather evident from the Telangana politicians. Everybody tries to put their party or their political career ahead of the need for the state. A triplet of MLAs have joined TRS recently from Congress, I am sure they did this because they might not win next elections from Congress and TRS is their best bet for now. This change in parties does not influence the formation of state other than strengthening of a political party.

I always have a problem on approximating the common-man behavior in India; whether they are good or bad, but I am sure, they are smart, but short sighted The people rally behind the political parties but not from the others like Gaddar Praja Front and people like Konda Lkshman Bapuji as the later are not politicians. They do this mostly for short time benefits from the politicians for petty things and essentially loosing a lot to the politicians.

The third and important lesson that we will never learn is Indian politicians are not for the society development, they are for their individual benefit, and it is a profession for them to make money.