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Fast Till Death, Demand Separate State: India

by Amitjha | December 9, 2009 at 03:40 am

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History repeats Itself, that is exactly what is happening in South India state of Andhra Pradesh.AP is an outcome one such fast way back in 1956. Demand was linguistic in nature that time but this time it is underdevelopment of one region named Telangana is at the core. Political representative of that region Mr Chandrashekar is on Hunger strike, it is his 11th day on strike. His situation is critical, as the days are passing the issue is getting hotter and hotter.

The health of fasting TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao is deteriorating and he urgently needs oral feed, a medical bulletin said onWednesday, PTI reported.

55-year-old Rao, whose indefinite fast for creation of a separate Telengana state entered the 11th day, is "refusing intravenous antibiotics, saline, glucose and any other supporting therapy," doctors at the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) here said.

Senior TRS MLA and Rao's nephew T Harish Rao besides party leaders and family members had urged Rao to break the fast but he has consistently refused. He has also refused to take medicines and that was complicating the situation as he has not taken solids for over a week.

Meanwhile, the Telangana issue is threatening to throw Hyderabad into complete chaos on Wednesday ahead of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti's (TRS) march to the Andhra assembly on Thursday. Along with the TRS, the Joint Action Committee of Students Union's have threatened to storm the assembly on December 10.

Over 15,000 angry students from the Osmania and Kakatia universities and various other colleges and schools continued to intensify their agitation today for a separate Telangana campaign. However, the state government is not taking any chances. Despite several students being taken into preventive custody, protests only escalated.

Prohibitory orders banning the assembly of five or more people were imposed in Hyderabad and nine other districts of Telangana under Section 144.
The Andhra Pradesh Assembly was adjourned over the TRS demand for passing a resolution favouring formation of a separate Telangana state.
For the second consecutive day, TRS members, holding placards, raised slogans and demanded that the House pass the resolution in favour of Telangana.
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Uwe Paschen

at 03:52 on December 9th, 2009

Maybe some good news will come out of all this by tomorrow?

They are not asking for Independence from India, only to be ruled as a state of its own.

It does sound though as if the people in charge could not care less about the will of the people.

BTW, please do not highlight a whole article, only an excerpt.

Thank you for the post.

Amitjha

at 04:03 on December 9th, 2009

Well, The unbalanced regional development is old issue here in India. So the demand for separate region is natural. The Maoist led killing is another manifestation of same sentiment. They are not asking for separate country but regional autonomy.

Uwe Paschen

at 04:23 on December 9th, 2009

I am well aware of all this. The trouble seems to be though that the Government is sidelining the issue rather then dealing with it.

a211423

at 09:55 on December 9th, 2009

Demand was linguistic in nature that time but this time it is underdevelopment of one region named Telangana is at the core.

I understand their wanting a separate state based on a linguistic difference, but will underdevelopment be improved if they are separate. In a democracy, at least in the U.S., states have individual rights, but they also benefit from federal laws and federal taxes. The desemination of tax money is through the Congress. Does India have similar representation by individual states? Perhaps the problem might be with their representation on the federal level that has resulted in the underdevelopment.