I am India

Hyderabad, this is the place I am born and bought up. This city gave me good friends, many opportunities to become an achiever in life. I love this city. Not just for me, it has been same for people coming from other places as well.

This city of Nizams now developed into a complete cosmopolitan hub accommodating people from various cultures and diversities.

So what? Why this essay on Hyderabad? Hmm, it’s because today this has become center of discussion for everybody in the wake of dividing Andhra Pradesh.

After statement from center that process for new state formation is on, first heard from other regions was, “Oh, then what about Hyderabad?” There was restlessness but were expecting some more updates. Then one senior IAS officer stated that “Hyderabad” will be capital of newly formed state, agitations hit the sky even more and they started saying we want to be united and splitting is not a good idea. Now, if only A.P capital was not Hyderabad and if Vizag or Kurnool was, will these people ever be bothered of “telangana” formation? Now if they announce Hyderabad an UT, will they agitate in the same way? This is one side story.

Now the other side story, one person started fasting and within 11 days statement for formation of separate state came in. This same person was with one regional party and as long as he was with that party, leave alone talking about separate telangana, he never even strived to do anything for telangana people. The same person, who was M.P and had few MLAs from telangana region, never went to parliament nor interacted with government to get grants for “his” telangana people. So now, if he heads newly formed state, what can he do? Does he require a separate state to develop? If only Hyderabad is made an UT will he be still interested in separate state?

So, the cream of the cake is Hyderabad and nobody wants to lose it.

Personally, I am not in favor of any separate state formation because this is not going to solve problems in any manner. Giving a separate state is like giving license to greedy politicians to make big money. Instead of concentrating on splitting the state into pieces we should work hand in hand to develop it.

Frankly speaking, whether it is Telangana, Andhra or Rayalaseema, common man (farmer, daily labour, workers, and middle class) is in same condition of buying groceries with half of their earnings, many families not able to even afford proper meal a day, tons of graduates lining up for employment but not finding one, villagers till hoping for some good light after sun sets, drinking water etc etc. Instead of spending huge money on building a new capital and infrastructure, it is better to spend on such needs and develop the area.

Celebrate development of state not formation of state .