Nizam Telangana state proponents have been propagating many myths.
Intellectuals for a separate state claim that the demand for a separate
Telangana state is 50 years old, when the fight for a unified Telugu state is more
than 100 years old—as old as India’s independence movement.
Some point out underdevelopment in the Nizam Telangana region.
However, they hardly talk about regions, such as Rayalaseema and Uttara Andhra,
that are in worse economic straits than the Telangana region.
Political parties such as the TRS position themselves as the torchbearers of
Nizam Telangana culture. However, when building the symbolic Telangana Bhavan,
instead of adopting native Telangana architecture such as that of Kakatiya’s, they
modeled it after the United States Capitol—so much for Telangana pride.
Separatist leaders have led us to believe that those in power have
discriminated against Nizam Telangana since the state was formed. Of the 14
chief ministers of our state, 7 hailed from Rayalaseema, 4 from Telangana, and 3from Kosta, and ironically, the region of Rayalaseema is the most underdeveloped
part of the state—far worse than Telangana.
Separatist leaders want us to believe that the successive governments have
willfully ignored irrigation development in the Nizam Telangana region. However,
they mask the fact that Nizam Telangana grew at the fastest rate in the irrigation
sector compared to other regions, whereas most irrigation development in Kosta
happened nearly 100 years before the state formation. The same leaders want us
to believe that in a Nizam Telangana state, all the river waters in the region can
be tapped and used locally. However, what they do not reveal is that the central
government-appointed tribunals allocate river waters and that not a drop of water
is left in the Krishna and Godavari Rivers for new allocations.
The litany of lies that the separatists propagate is never-ending. Nizam
Telangana has made major strides in development when compared to Coastal
Andhra or Rayalaseema. Ever since the state formation, relative to the other
regions, the Telangana region has grown at the fastest pace in almost all the
important economic sectors, including irrigation, agriculture production,
education, employment, and industrial development.
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