What Telangana ppl really want is ‘free’ money.
Why Telangana ppl are afraid to work in Seema & Coastal regions?

Telangana Region is at 1 km high altitude than Coastal Region.
River waters will flow from high to low altitudes. Common sense?

Coastal ppl are NOT saying Gujarat exploited our KG basin oil reserves.
Seema ppl are NOT saying Coastal ppl exploited their river waters.

TN MPs got better Cabinet Berths in UPA than AP MPs.
AP MPs are NOT saying TN exploited them.

Why only Telangana ppl rant they’re exploited?

@Aneesh, I haven’t looked at any revenue figures or other information here, that might be important. But while I did the post I thought it was not so important. As I said, the post talked about identity and self-respect in a federal environment. Is there a point in worrying about revenues when the question is about identity. Britishers would have invested heavily in HongKong or Gujaratis in Mumbai or Andhraites in Chennai – but politics and identity comes ahead of any future analysis of cash flow. I think so. If you ask how will Andhra survive without Hyderabad, that is a question we need to pose to every centralized model of development. And if we say Andhra will suck without Hyderabad, we are questioning the ability of one of India’s most entrepreneurial population. And how long can this issue be put in the backburner, how many more people have to die? Then again examples of Uttarkhand and Jharkand are out there, the agility that small states bring. And I wouldn’t use the Aam Aadmi word so lightly, and KCR and his family benefiting is a naive view of things. TRS has no direct benefits here except they will be a larger player in Telangana’s politics.

@E Pradeep, I agree. Vizag and Vijayawada are powerful cities in the two remaining regions which can drive growth. That’s a balanced take on things. I mentioned division of Pakistan here because it is a crisis based on a basic identity – religion, and here language.

Small states may be easy for governance all right, but you’ve to see both sides of the coin. The federal concept is going to get weaker with the birth of more states and more regional parties. Now an unstable Central Govt can put the whole nation on backfoot, so we need to think thrice, or more times, before heeding to such regionalistic demands.

Telangana has a rich stock of minerals ans is fairly well-endowed in terms of natural resources; absence of Hyderabad does not make it an economically unviable state. Krishna and Godavari flow into Telangana also – the fact is that for this region has not received adequate power and other resources despite the need and it is this has affected the state. Coastal Andhra is not dependent solely on Hyderabad – you forget the position of Vijayawada and Vizag in the growth of AP as a strong regional power.

Ofcourse, you could argue whether another government means that the administration will improve and that does not necessarily depend on the size but the fact that is that a smaller provice can help in a better demarcation of powers and a more efficient governance. A smaller state can be governed well but will it – that’s to be seen…