Speak Out India: Logic of Telangana sound - Why India needs 50 small states
- 5 years ago
Yesterday's Congress decision to allow a new state-Telangana-to be carved out of Andhra Pradesh has a simple logic behind it: electoral math. If Telangana had not been announced, Congress would have been wiped out in both the Andhra and Telangana regions in 2014. The announcement thus is a matter of self-preservation.
If this wasn't the case, Telangana could already have been a reality by now, for the first announcement on it was made as early as on 9 December 2009 by no less a person than P Chidambaram, then Home Minister. That he reneged on the promise in less than two weeks tells another story. That it took three-and-a-half years and a full-fledged people's agitation for the Congress to make yet another announcement on Telangana tells the story even more clearly.
However, the politics of the decision need not detain us here. The simple point is that it is a good decision even though it has been arrived at through a process of self-serving logic. Good intentions can sometimes lead to bad results (as BJP's India Shining campaign did in 2004) and dubious intentions sometimes result in good decisions. Telangana is a case in point.
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If this wasn't the case, Telangana could already have been a reality by now, for the first announcement on it was made as early as on 9 December 2009 by no less a person than P Chidambaram, then Home Minister. That he reneged on the promise in less than two weeks tells another story. That it took three-and-a-half years and a full-fledged people's agitation for the Congress to make yet another announcement on Telangana tells the story even more clearly.
However, the politics of the decision need not detain us here. The simple point is that it is a good decision even though it has been arrived at through a process of self-serving logic. Good intentions can sometimes lead to bad results (as BJP's India Shining campaign did in 2004) and dubious intentions sometimes result in good decisions. Telangana is a case in point.
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