PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2013 ID-56192
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2-0 J J~/20 t2> Publlcmeedllg: Telan,uana, Gorkhaland: People's Aspirations, suuuulesand the Democratic Demand tor Smaller States.
Prof. G. Haragopal, Hcu.
Manish Tamang,.
Saroj Giri, ou .
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TONIGHT, 9.30pm MAHI MESS.
In Aug 2013, the UPA announced the official sanctioning of the Telangana state. Waves of joy, mixed with.
scepticism, spread across the Telangana region. Although it was clear as daylight that UPA was succumbing to itselectoral calculations for the upcoming general elections in 2014, this was indeed no gift from the government It was ahuge victory of decades of people's struggle for the democratic demand of statehood for Telangana. Although this could.
be seen as the successful culmination of an enormous p:!ople's struggle; people also genuinely doubt whether this is yet.
another machination-of the ruling classes and yet another form of deception with which the UPA wants to both quell themovement and draw votes. Because such deception and extreme state repression is what the people of Telangana havereceived all these years for raising the genuine demand for separate statehood. The state over the years responded totheir demand only through the use of force and fasci~t means. Both the central government as well as the AndhraPradesh government deployed huge forces to curtail the movement. Students who have been in the forefront of the fight.
for a separate Telangana were jailed, brutally tortured and even killed while scores committed suicide. Severaluniversnies in the region were thrown open by the state to paramilitary forces, Grey Hound squads, Rapid Action Forceetc-to c1uslr the movement. In this context, the declaration for Telangana emerged as a ray of hope not only for.
Gorkhaland. The people.
Telangana but also for 'other various other peoples who are fighting for separate statehood, especially in.
s demand for separate statehood for Gorkhaland, which is one of the oldest such demand in the.
sub-continent has received nothing but an escalated militarised response from the state. Off late when the movement for.
Gorkhaland intensified, the entire hill region was deployed with para-military forces and checks, raids and repression wasthe only response from the West Bengal state government to violently repress the movement.The seeds of uneven development and regional difference were implanted during the colonial period in various.
parts of the-sub-continent. This has been-coercively maintained by the feudal-comprador ruling classes since the.
transfer of power in 1947. For the present economic system it is necessity to keep certain regions underdeveloped.
which become targets of intensified exploitation. Both Telangana and Gorkhafand have been marked for such oppression.
along with socio-economic and cultural marginalization. Telangana people has been kept socially, culturally, politically.
oppressed and economically looted by the feudal-comprador forces of Andhra ruling clique. Telanga;:2 waters have been.
diverted through mega dam projects to irrigation projects in Andhra to satiate the greed of the coastal Andhra.
entrepreneurs. The proposed Potavaram project which is intended to supply irrigation water to Andhra is going to displace.
13 mandals of Telangana with adivasi inhabitants. There have been attempts to divert waters from Telangana toRayalaseema through the Pothireddypadu project by holding water more than dam''s capacity in Sree Sailam through.
Jala Yagnam', resulting in unprecedented floods in Rayalaseema and Telangana districts in the recent past. The.
government public distribution system in Andhra supplies only rice whereas the rain-fed areas of Telangana cultivates.
bajra, jowar, raagi and such other food grains. Extra pressure on Telangana peasantry was put to grow only rice at the.
expense of their indigenous crops. Similarly, Telangana youth have also been deprived of opportunities in government.
services. In the name of homogenization of state culture, Andhra rulers have tried to impose rts culture particularly interms of language and food habits..
Gorkhaland has also suffered unimaginable exploitation and underdevelopment, driving the entire region to.
genocidal poverty and malnutrition, attimes forcing mass migrations. Following t~e British predecessors, the ruling.
classes in Bengal has only showcased Darjeeling and the entire region in the north of present day Bengal as a.
recreational area' 'tourist.
without addressing any genuine requirements of the·people living there. The deplorable condition-of the.
tea-gardens and the workers and their families there has taken an alarming proportion, with rampant starvation deaths.
becominh a regular feature. In the last one decade more than 1200 people have died in the tea gardens due to starvation.
and malnutrition. In January 2013, 95 workers of Dheklapara tea estate wrote to the CM that they will commit suicide as .
----they are unable to bear starvation. Along with this extreme economic exploitation, the continued racist discrimination and.
objectification of Gorkhas and other tribal population exacerbate the marginalisation. The lure for profit maximization hasdriven the teajndustries to use harmful pesticides and fertilizers which have affected the health and ecology of the region.All parliamentary parties, in both Telnagana and Gorkhaland either blatantly betrayed the movement or tried to.
ride the sentiment of the people to further their own electoral ends. The pariiamentary parties rather were part and.
parcel in various machinations by the -state to sabotage these movements aod tried to end them in co-option and.
compromises. The regular betrayal of such forces had prolonged and degenerated both the movements for Talengana.
and Gorkhaland at various points which only regained its militancy and reinvigorated its agenda because of the spirited.
and uncompromising participation of the masses that fought valiantly for their statehood and freedom..
Only the formation of small states through territorial reorganization is definitely not an end in itself as the.
instances of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand ~Jiaringly demonstrate. The territorial separation of oppressed,marginalised and ~iscriminated regi~n is a step ahe.ad for the deljlocratstructure of the lndtan state and that 1s why progressrve forces mtht standiz~tion1n soll. danty wtth these struggles. However the .
of t.he oppressive and centra~ised social .
.
I .
fight will remain incomplete unless it is connected with the fight of the other oppressed masses of the. subcontinent for.
their rights, livelihood and dignity as well as for a revolutionary social-transformation. It is only the people, and thepeople alone, led by the revoluti~nary moveme~t who will eventually accomplish thi~ task of the establishment of a new.
demOcratic society-free from allk1nds of oppressiOn. .
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PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2013 ID-56192
.
a~\u~l ~ ol~-.
2-0 J J~/20 t2> Publlcmeedllg: Telan,uana, Gorkhaland: People's Aspirations, suuuulesand the Democratic Demand tor Smaller States.
Prof. G. Haragopal, Hcu.
Manish Tamang,.
Saroj Giri, ou .
.
TONIGHT, 9.30pm MAHI MESS.
In Aug 2013, the UPA announced the official sanctioning of the Telangana state. Waves of joy, mixed with.
scepticism, spread across the Telangana region. Although it was clear as daylight that UPA was succumbing to itselectoral calculations for the upcoming general elections in 2014, this was indeed no gift from the government It was ahuge victory of decades of people's struggle for the democratic demand of statehood for Telangana. Although this could.
be seen as the successful culmination of an enormous p:!ople's struggle; people also genuinely doubt whether this is yet.
another machination-of the ruling classes and yet another form of deception with which the UPA wants to both quell themovement and draw votes. Because such deception and extreme state repression is what the people of Telangana havereceived all these years for raising the genuine demand for separate statehood. The state over the years responded totheir demand only through the use of force and fasci~t means. Both the central government as well as the AndhraPradesh government deployed huge forces to curtail the movement. Students who have been in the forefront of the fight.
for a separate Telangana were jailed, brutally tortured and even killed while scores committed suicide. Severaluniversnies in the region were thrown open by the state to paramilitary forces, Grey Hound squads, Rapid Action Forceetc-to c1uslr the movement. In this context, the declaration for Telangana emerged as a ray of hope not only for.
Gorkhaland. The people.
Telangana but also for 'other various other peoples who are fighting for separate statehood, especially in.
s demand for separate statehood for Gorkhaland, which is one of the oldest such demand in the.
sub-continent has received nothing but an escalated militarised response from the state. Off late when the movement for.
Gorkhaland intensified, the entire hill region was deployed with para-military forces and checks, raids and repression wasthe only response from the West Bengal state government to violently repress the movement.The seeds of uneven development and regional difference were implanted during the colonial period in various.
parts of the-sub-continent. This has been-coercively maintained by the feudal-comprador ruling classes since the.
transfer of power in 1947. For the present economic system it is necessity to keep certain regions underdeveloped.
which become targets of intensified exploitation. Both Telangana and Gorkhafand have been marked for such oppression.
along with socio-economic and cultural marginalization. Telangana people has been kept socially, culturally, politically.
oppressed and economically looted by the feudal-comprador forces of Andhra ruling clique. Telanga;:2 waters have been.
diverted through mega dam projects to irrigation projects in Andhra to satiate the greed of the coastal Andhra.
entrepreneurs. The proposed Potavaram project which is intended to supply irrigation water to Andhra is going to displace.
13 mandals of Telangana with adivasi inhabitants. There have been attempts to divert waters from Telangana toRayalaseema through the Pothireddypadu project by holding water more than dam''s capacity in Sree Sailam through.
Jala Yagnam', resulting in unprecedented floods in Rayalaseema and Telangana districts in the recent past. The.
government public distribution system in Andhra supplies only rice whereas the rain-fed areas of Telangana cultivates.
bajra, jowar, raagi and such other food grains. Extra pressure on Telangana peasantry was put to grow only rice at the.
expense of their indigenous crops. Similarly, Telangana youth have also been deprived of opportunities in government.
services. In the name of homogenization of state culture, Andhra rulers have tried to impose rts culture particularly interms of language and food habits..
Gorkhaland has also suffered unimaginable exploitation and underdevelopment, driving the entire region to.
genocidal poverty and malnutrition, attimes forcing mass migrations. Following t~e British predecessors, the ruling.
classes in Bengal has only showcased Darjeeling and the entire region in the north of present day Bengal as a.
recreational area' 'tourist.
without addressing any genuine requirements of the·people living there. The deplorable condition-of the.
tea-gardens and the workers and their families there has taken an alarming proportion, with rampant starvation deaths.
becominh a regular feature. In the last one decade more than 1200 people have died in the tea gardens due to starvation.
and malnutrition. In January 2013, 95 workers of Dheklapara tea estate wrote to the CM that they will commit suicide as .
----they are unable to bear starvation. Along with this extreme economic exploitation, the continued racist discrimination and.
objectification of Gorkhas and other tribal population exacerbate the marginalisation. The lure for profit maximization hasdriven the teajndustries to use harmful pesticides and fertilizers which have affected the health and ecology of the region.All parliamentary parties, in both Telnagana and Gorkhaland either blatantly betrayed the movement or tried to.
ride the sentiment of the people to further their own electoral ends. The pariiamentary parties rather were part and.
parcel in various machinations by the -state to sabotage these movements aod tried to end them in co-option and.
compromises. The regular betrayal of such forces had prolonged and degenerated both the movements for Talengana.
and Gorkhaland at various points which only regained its militancy and reinvigorated its agenda because of the spirited.
and uncompromising participation of the masses that fought valiantly for their statehood and freedom..
Only the formation of small states through territorial reorganization is definitely not an end in itself as the.
instances of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand ~Jiaringly demonstrate. The territorial separation of oppressed,marginalised and ~iscriminated regi~n is a step ahe.ad for the deljlocratstructure of the lndtan state and that 1s why progressrve forces mtht standiz~tion1n soll. danty wtth these struggles. However the .
of t.he oppressive and centra~ised social .
.
I .
fight will remain incomplete unless it is connected with the fight of the other oppressed masses of the. subcontinent for.
their rights, livelihood and dignity as well as for a revolutionary social-transformation. It is only the people, and thepeople alone, led by the revoluti~nary moveme~t who will eventually accomplish thi~ task of the establishment of a new.
demOcratic society-free from allk1nds of oppressiOn. .
. .
.
.
-.
.