Telangana state Finance Minister Etela Rajendar responding to Congress floor leader K Jana Reddy’s criticism on his maiden budget, reacted very sharply. He said “Despite granting Telangana state, Congress party has been rejected by the people. Because, they believe you have shown no interest to resolve their problems all these years. Instead, you served the Andhra rulers of your party to safeguard your political interests, even when they neglect our irrigation projects.”

 

Etela arguments can be justified to some extent because it is true that none of the T-Congress leaders have ever insisted their governments to complete the pending projects. But, the same brush can be applied to TRS party also because it also never stressed on these points as it is preoccupied with its Telangana agitations. There are several representatives of TRS in the undivided AP Assembly. So, they also have equal chance to ask the government why it is showing discrimination towards Telangana region.

 

It can demand the government to address the fluorosis problem that turns curse for the people of Nalgonda district, but it didn’t. It can stress the government address the problems of farmers, handloom and Beedi workers, but it didn’t. It never asked the government to set-up new power generation plants in the region.

 

It focused all its concentration on how to win the elections, with whom to make alliance, when to snap ties and how to attract the other parties’ leaders into party. It always tried to prove the AP government is guilty rather than pressurizing it to resolve all problems like this. So, in other words, it tries to drive the previous governments in wrong direction, probably to achieve its goal.

 

TRS that is blaming the Congress party now for everything, once was prepared to merge with the same party. If its plan to merge with Congress is to be justified, then how can blame it? So, TRS can’t simply transfer the blame onto previous governments. It also failed to safeguard the interests of Telangana people, but comes to power tapping Telangana sentiment in the people. Even today, it is not ready to recognize hundreds of martyrs, on whose graves it rose to this position.