TPS members claimed that the students were not even students but
outsiders. In an ensuing scuttle, TPS members physically assaulted some
students and forcibly removed some from the premises.
In the end, Chenna Reddy and his clan dissolved the separate Telangana
movement based on a mere “hope” that Indira Gandhi would concede to their
demands. They clearly knew that she would not fulfill their demands. Indira
Gandhi did not budge when the state was going up in flames; why would she
concede to their demands now.
At the end of September 1971, Congress legislators elected education
minister P. V. Narasimha Rao, who hailed from the Telangana region, as their
leader and made him the chief minister of the state. The new CM inducted
former TPS member Achyut Reddy into the 14-member cabinet.
The tragic saga of the Telangana movement that consumed hundreds
of innocent young lives, caused massive collateral damage to pubic assets, and
pushed the state economically back by many years thus ended.
Now let us look at how the leaders and proponents of today’s separate
state movement are distorting facts to further their agenda.
Professor Jayashankar wrote the following: The Gentlemen’s Agreement
of 1956, which was an assurance of fair play given to the people of Telangana
to facilitate the formation of Andhra Pradesh, was scuttled the very same day
on which the state was born, by the very same Gentlemen who were signatories
to the agreement.” The Vice Chancellor makes a profound statement about
violating the agreement but does not clarify how.
The gentlemen’s agreement was not scuttled, and large portions of it
were effectively implemented. The Telangana regional council was formed
according to the agreement. During its reign, the council unanimously passed
all the resolutions, and no dispute whatsoever existed with the government. In
terms of ministerial appointments, all rules laid out in the agreements seem to
have been met because none of the leaders raised this as an issue, even during
the height of the separatist movement in 1969.
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