VV Balakrishna
First Published : 05 Jan 2010 03:31:00 AM IST
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HYDERABAD: Professors have not limited themselves to spurring on students but have taken an active part in the ongoing struggle for separate Telangana State, turning it into a people’s movement by pushing politicos into corner.
Moreover, politicians didn’t object to Prof. M Kodandaram heading the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of political parties for separate Telangna, perhaps, realising that people had lost faith in them.
May be, they have stepped back respecting people’s sentiments and conceded leadership to a professor.
``I do not believe in politicians that they will achieve separate Telangana,’’ opined a student, who participated in the Vidyarthi Garjana yesterday in the city. Humble and soft spoken in nature, Kodandaram has successfully been coordinating the politicians of various parties with different ideologies. It seems, they have no qualms to work under the leadership of an educationist.
G Haragopal, a retired professor who taught political science at the University of Hyderabad and Kakatiya University, remarked that a professor leading a JAC of politicians was a welcome change.
``It is another social process,’’ he said endorsing the leadership of his colleague. For that matter, Haragopal himself took a proactive role in the ongoing Telangana movement by supporting students, who vowed to continue the agitation till Telangana was carved out. It may be mentioned that Jayashankar, a retired professor of Kakatiya University has been in the forefront of Telangana movement. He has been the ideologue of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), whose main agenda is to achieve separate State.
Terming `professors leading the movement’ a welcome sign, the Telangana NGOs president K Swamy Goud attributed the development to their credibility. May be taking cue from Telangana movement, United Andhra JAC of politicians which has been opposing bifurcation of the State decided to work under the leadership of professor Samuel from Nagarjuna University. It appears, people are gradually losing faith in politicos and parties and the void is being filled by professors.
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I personally discourage this both in Telangana as well as in Andhra. They should instead be guiding the Students on the values of Education, Moral Values etc. It is an open fact that the whole issue is to gain a political advantage be it in Telangana or Andhra. If people feel separate State is the only solution to all the problems, they should also think of the new problems that will spring up on forming of a separate State.
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