WHY TELANGANA MODEL NEEDED FOR THE NATION
Vanam Jwala Narasimha Rao
The Hans India (30-04-2023)
(George Bernard Shaw said, ‘Ordinary
people adapt themselves to the world. The extra-ordinary person tries to adapt
the world to him. Hence the progress and development of the world is through
extra-ordinary people.’ KCR is one such person. His Out of Box thinking that
moves away in diverging directions leading to novel ideas, solutions, and creativity,
is the need of hour for a qualitative change and for realizing ‘Ab ki Baar
Kisan Sarkar’. What the Centre could not do in terms of mapping the
agriculture land, the Telangana State has done and shown the way. KCR is very
critical of center which is recklessly determined on privatizing Public Sector Undertakings
and handing over power plants to private companies, and declared that if
privatization is their agenda, nationalization is BRS agenda. BRS if voted to
power will withdraw all such controversial decisions besides implementing Telangana
Model, he vowed-Hans India Editor’s Note)
The Proverb 'Nothing succeeds
like success' - an American expression originated in France, in a book
by Alexander Dumas, that signifies an ‘Initial success provides the
resources and fosters the circumstances for further success’ - is probably
hundred percent appropriate in the case of Bharat Rashtra Samithi President and
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. With the triumphs earlier and
more such accomplishments in store in future, KCR, in his crusade to bring a
qualitative change in the governance, in the third successive mammoth
gathering, in Maharashtra, at Jabinda Grounds Aurangabad, on April 24, 2023, made
it crystal clear that, BRS is not simply meant for one single election or
day or community or religion or caste but belongs to all in its bid to fight
for one and all.
KCR enthused the farmers to ‘rise
and roar like the lions they were’, and ensure the victory of the BRS
in the forthcoming Zilla Parishad elections in Maharashtra. In addition, said
KCR, that, farmers who have been merely going to the fields for agriculture, now
should go to the Law-Making Bodies. He then raised his preferred slogan ‘Ab
ki Baar Kisan Sarkar’ and the audience in large numbers echoed with
him. KCR expressed the confidence that once BRS flag is hoisted in the ZP
Elections, leaders who hitherto neglected farmers will come running to them.
KCR cited the instance of his challenge in Nanded meeting earlier, resulting in
Maharashtra government making a budgetary provision for Rythu Bandhu Type
Scheme, though with reduced amount.
KCR said that the Maharashtra
Government failed to provide essential facilities and goods to the people, despite
no dearth of funds, due to sheer lack of will power, sincerity, and commitment.
He expressed his displeasure that several towns in Maharashtra, including Aurangabad,
receiving drinking water once a week only. ‘we provided treated drinking water
through tap connections to every household in Telangana under Mission
Bhagiratha ensuring that the water that rich people in Jubilee Hills and
Banjara Hills drink is the same that reaches the Gond tribal in remote Adilabad
district in the State’, said KCR. He said that this can be made possible even in
Maharashtra too as in Telangana.
The planning with vision during the
first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s regime, was given way to petty
politics forgetting priorities of the country, including doing away with the
process of five-year planning said KCR. Such aimless actions need to be rectified
said KCR. ‘Agar Ghee seedhi ungli se na nikle, to ungli tedi karni Padti Hai’
(Where straightforwardness has never a chance of working, crookedness
flourishes)’ said KCR. ‘Almighty Allah ke Ghar Me Der Hai, Magar Andheri
Nahi’ added KCR further. ‘Fanoos Banke Jiski Hifazat Hawa Kare,
Woh Shamma kya Bujhe Jise Roshan Khuda kare’ (when the air itself
becomes the shielding guard, how can a candle extinguish when it is lit by God)
said KCR. Hence, ‘let us fight, and change the destiny of India from the
pathetic situation’ declared KCR.
Brushing aside Narendra Modi’s theoretical
slogans of ‘Digital India’ and ‘Made in India’ KCR
questioned him why he failed to take-up digitalization of Land Records which is
a major solution for all land related issues and cited the Telangana example
which enables the entire land registration exercise to be completed in a matter
of 15 minutes including handing over of title deeds to the concerned. KCR said
what the Centre could not do in terms of mapping the agriculture land, the Telangana
State has done and shown the way. KCR was very critical of center which is recklessly
determined on privatizing Public Sector Undertakings and handing over power
plants to private companies, and declared that if privatization is their
agenda, nationalization is BRS agenda. BRS if voted to power will withdraw all
such controversial decisions besides implementing Telangana Model
said KCR.
The harsh reality that, rich becoming
richer and poor becoming poorer in this country, needs to be reformed. ‘Our
fate will not change till we, ourselves change’ KCR pointed out and
mentioned how China, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore surged ahead,
while India still remained where it was. KCR referred to Zimbabwe a smaller country
than India, but saves water by constructing a major reservoir, whereas India could
not do so.
Consequent to Aurangabad meeting, leaders
and cadre in large numbers from Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, Yavatmal and other
areas of Maharashtra joined BRS at Telangana Bhavan on April 26, 2023.
Addressing them, KCR assured that, BRS would take up a ‘Bharat Parivartan
Mission’, as part of which it would bring about a paradigm shift in the
country’s water policy to ensure sufficient water for irrigation and drinking across
the country at the earliest. KCR said that Water cannot be manufactured in any
factory and India does not have to beg before Russia or the United States to
address this perennial issue since there is a provision of abundance of water, rather
double the water which is required, which eventually drains out into the seas
due to the sheer negligence of the Central government. All the 83. 41 crore
acres of land in the country should get irrigation water, asserted KCR.
During the course of his address KCR
said that the BRS Party would constitute committees in all villages of the
State from May 7 to June 7 and permanent offices of BRS would be set up in
Nagpur and Aurangabad. A kisan rally with an expected massive gathering of 10
to 12 lakhs of people would also be organized in Maharashtra soon. Finally, KCR
categorically mentioned, as he does time and again that, the BRS has not come
to make a leader but it has come to bring a qualitative change in India, which
is the need of the hour.
George Bernard Shaw said, ‘Ordinary
people adapt themselves to the world. The extra-ordinary person tries to adapt
the world to him. Hence the progress and development of the world is through
extra-ordinary people’. These people are called successful people.
Success is not a chance but a choice for successful people. For these
extra-ordinary successful people, success is a daily routine, a way of life,
and a custom. And KCR is one among these rare extra-ordinary successful people.
His Out of Box thinking that moves away in diverging directions leading to
novel ideas, solutions, and creativity, is the need of hour for a qualitative
change and for realizing ‘Ab ki Baar Kisan Sarkar’.
(The writer
is Chief Public Relations Officer to Chief Minister, Telangana)