Giving up life for Telangana

[ramana murthy]

 

Giving up life for Telangana..

 

Even as we are recovering from traumatic memories of Yadayya's suicide, today another youngster, by name Veeraswamy, immolated himself in Jagtyal town of Karimnagar district. He too apparantly left a suicide note stating his wish that his death should contribute to the creation of Telangana state. Reports say that his condition is serious. God forbid, by the time this mail is being read by everyone, we may be hearing about yet another death. Yesterday Yadayya, before that Venugopal Reddy, Srikatha Chary, ...., it is a count that no one wishes to keep, even as everyone is conscious that it has crossed two hundred!

 

Government, on record, acknowledged that these are protest suicides demanding  creation of a separate state. Chief Minister Rosaiah, while saying that the creation of Telangana state is not in hands of State Government, but of the Central government, made an appeal to the Telangana youth in the A.P. Assembly not to commit suicides. But the suicides do not seem to abate. Several youth in many private and public meetings are giving threatening slogans that they would give up their lives for the Telangana cause. Giving up one's life has acquired a particular connotation in the present context.

 

Reactions to this genre of suicides have been many - from declaring them as martyrs to describing these as caused by personal crises. Some go to the extent of dubbing their suicide notes as faked ones, suspecting them to be murders. When Venugopal Reddy died, the state government ordered an inquiry, perhaps hoping to find a fould deed. Several people cuation that one should not make them martyrs fearing that it might trigger more suicides. Needless to comment on the level of insensivity demonstrated by the guilt-ridden politicians from Andhra who accuse Telangana leaders of instigating these suicides!

 

Do all those lower middle class and dalit-bahujan youth committing suicide see a ray of hope of getting a secure job in the Telangana state? Or at least hope to create an opportunity to earn a livelihood for others, who may otherwise have only to go back to the village to do virtual slavery?

 

When I see these young men dying, I am reminded of the deaths of Irish republican protesters in early 1980s which I used to read about in the newspapers. Like them, one young man or woman seems to be giving up life to say that Telangana is a live issue for them. They are not organized or coordinated but one can't miss the sense of collective frustration in each of these deaths. Yadaiah, when he was being taken to the hospital asked the people around, "Anna, saadhinchama?" (Brother? Did I achieve what we wanted?)

 

It seems futile to search for rational explanations for these suicides. Every suicide, whether one likes it or not, is a statement of protest. They could be having several problems, personal, psychological, social, etc in their lives. But when they end their lives, all meaning of life ceases for them, only to continue it for others. Probably, thats all they want to happen....

 

(Written on 2nd March, 2010)

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Dr.R.V.Ramana Murthy
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Dept. of Economics
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Live and struggle.

Fight till your last breath to achieve the goal.  But never give up life in self immolation and end the struggle to achieve the goal.

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Let us renew our commitment to freedom

[Kishan Rao]

Dear Fellow Telanganites

We have come up with this idea of Gram Sabhas of all the Telangana gram panchayats passing a resolution asking for the immediate introduction of Telangana bill and form the Telangana state and stating a valid reason why they want to have a state for themselves. This resolution may preferably moved on Ugadi day and post(Regd. post with Ack. due) the copies of resolution to President, Prime Minister and sriKrishna Committee.

If you like the idea and endorse it, please try to contact your friends and relatives living in the Telangana villages and request them to set the Telangana Resolution Passage ball rolling.

I am attaching three copies with font sizes 9, 10,11 for readability sake.

There are nearly 10,000 villages in Telangana. By tomorrow afternoon 6000 pamphlets will be ready for distribution. The rest 4000, to 5000 printing and distribution can be taken up by our group members but the watchword is coordination and 100% efficiency. We are distributing the 6000 pamphlets in six districts, Khammam, Warangal, Nalgonda, Medak and Adilabad through the local teacher or jac networks or simply  by post.

Please be in touch with us.

Jai Telangana

Kishan Rao Parcha

Phone No : 9441123197