Telangana-The Demands For Statehood

Stories & columns on Telangana have been on the front pages of Newspapers for about a week now & a lot has been written and said on the issue. The Question that is being asked is that is there a need to carve out Telangana from Andhra Pradesh? Probably there is no perfect answer.

Telangana literally means 'The land of The Telugu's' and it covers a large part of Andhra, including Hyderabad. In fact, it is itself larger then 17 other states & U.T.s. A hyped demand for statehood has triggered copycat demands from various other regions in the country.

Most people feel that small States would lead to better governance. But Gujrat, Punjab, Maharastra are big states and are fairing much better than Nagaland or Tripura. It is the leadership that determines the welfare of the people, and not the state's size.

I feel that we can't continue to carve out more linguistic states now. It's high time we learn to respect other communities & cultures & learn to live with differences of opinions. The politicians come up with such demands only to get the vote of the common man, we need to be causious. There are already a lot of problems (Both internal & external) that our country has to face & the last thing we would want is the political class fighting for separate states and power depriving us of much needed progress.
No united Andhra or Telangana, We want a UNITED INDIA!!!