Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee. India

The report is like a saying ‘Dug the mountains, found a rat, and that, too, dead’
In Urdu the saying is ‘Khoda Pahad, Nikla Chuha, Who bhi Mara Huva’

Muslim Forum for Telangana strongly condemns the options given by the Srikrishna Committee on Telangana issue. It is just like a saying “old wine in a new bottle”. It states that this forum rejects the whole report of Srikrishna Committee and called this report as useless exercise that wasted the time, money and energy of the government and the people. Srikrishna committee report is like a saying in Urdu, “khoda pahad nikla chuha who bhi mara huva”. Instead of solving the problem this committee has tried to dissolve it and make it a more complicated one. This forum strongly believes that this report is not fair and the impact of Andhra political class reflects from this report.

The people of Telangana had lot of hopes on this committee but this committee has betrayed their hopes and aspirations. Due to this report the sentiments of Telangana people have been hurt to largest extent. Their confidence has been shaken badly.

It is a matter of fact that the people of Telangana are suffering since 1956 i.e. from the formation of Andhra Pradesh. Their rights have been always violated and they are continuously struggling for justice. Therefore, they are demanding for separate statehood. But every time and on every occasion the people of Telangana have been cheated at every stage on the name of agreements, packages, and commissions. However, these have been never implemented.

People of Telangana until now thought that the formation of this committee was a step ahead of Home Minister Mr. Chidambaram’s statement that the process of formation of Telangana state has been initiated. But after reading the report it is clear that the Congress government has cheated the people of Telangana once again in the name of Srikrishna Committee.

However, the new generation is not ready to accept neither the report nor are they ready to be cheated like the earlier generation who believed and also got cheated by the commissions, promises rules, agreements etc. this forum believes that struggle is the only way to achieve Telangana statehood and this struggle will not be the last struggle but it will be tireless and continuous struggle.

Muslim Forum for Telangana demands separate Telangana which has self- respect, self rule and Hyderabad as its capital. We also demand to introduce Telangana bill in the Parliament without any delay.

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Lateef Mohd Khan
Convener
Muslim Forum For Telangana