In spite of my having told myself and you my dear reader that I shall not post things pertaining to the separate Telangana movement, something or the other happens to provoke me to break the promise I have made to myself and you. I find it difficult to ignore when somebody who is as young as 30 years in age decides to end his life for a separate Telangana. In the past when others have committed suicide for Telangana I have expressed my anguish and the pointlessness of it all. I had said (I am quoting myself from memory) that when there are people willing to spend lakhs of rupees just to keep themselves alive, I find myself being indignant when young people take their presumably healthy lives for a political cause.
I understand that most people who have taken their lives are those that come from the not so well to do families and from a very deprived educational background which has rendered them unfit for employment. The politicians have made such vulnerable people the target of their campaigns and that is what has given hope to the hopeless because all the young people assume that once a separate Telangana state is formed they will find jobs. When the process is delayed it is therefore no surprise that their levels of frustration mount since their immediate problems and joblessness cannot wait for the High Command forever to take a decision. Needless to say this is definitely the fault of the politicians who will do anything for the satisfaction of their own agendas.
But that is not the real intent behind this post. What really irks me is how everybody is trying to benefit from the suicide of one person. Everybody who has killed himself is immediately elevated to the status of a martyr and immediately after a suicide the focus shifts to the mortal remains of the dead person. Leaders of political parties and other political organization want processions and the Government says no. This leads to a stand off which in turn leads to a bandh and the paralysing of life. First of all I would like to state that it is greatly disrespectful to the dead person when politicians and the aspiring ones seek to make political mileage out him/her by wanting to take the mortal remains of that person in a procession. Second, the bandhs that stem out from such things are disrespectful to the general population at large. Let me explain that better.
The agitators must realise that those within the general population may or may not have concrete ideas about the cause of the agitation. Meaning some may want a separate state while others may not or it could be that people are not sure as to where they stand. Even in the instance of people having concrete ideas of what they want things to be,very rarely do they act. That means that despite wanting something vaguely, they do nothing about it because they are not driven to want that passionately enough and so do not really act. Which means that they are passive and so it means by extension that they are not the people who are either hindering or facilitating the realization of the goals of an agitation. Therefore to inconvenience them when the problem lies elsewhere is not only morally unsustainable but also offensive.
Yesterday there was a bandh call somewhere in Rayalaseema for keeping the state united and today there is a bandh call in Telangana for bifurcation. These politics are becoming nerve wracking and simply disrupting the productivity of society. I wish that some other means are used in order to make the powers that be understand the aspirations of the agitators on both sides of the great divide. Also continued involvements of students in the agitation over prolonged periods of time damages the students quality of education and therefore the prospects of a better life in the future. The young should also value their own life and not commit suicide, otherwise post their death their mortal remains are just fodder for the cannons of the politicians who are the cause of the imbroglio in the first place anyway. The tragedy of the situation is not just the loss of life and limb, it is the loss of futures. I think people should come together to fight politicians and not become accessories to the dirty agenda of the politicians, be they on whichever side of the divide.
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