The Parliament of India is democratically empowered to merge or demerge any two or more states with simple majority in the House. Yet, the political leadership of the country played on to the cheap politics that exposed their myopic perceptions. Popular aspirations and exemplary sacrifices that the local people demonstrated were undermined at times. Strong resolve in favor of their statehood was not recognized, leave alone respected. .
Contrary to the conflicting claims of some states or political parties, Article 3 could have been used for the purpose and the issue settled long ago. Rather, the national parties that run the ruling regimes at Delhi succumbed to political blackmails and thereby sabotaged the regional and autonomous movements in the regions. The central government had responded to these movements quite undemocratically on couple of occasions. Besides, politicizing the statehood formation was unwarranted and of course it proved to be counterproductive to these political parties. In a way, such an attitude of the national parties can be attributed for the rise and growth of regional parties in Telangana and elsewhere. .
The recent electoral fiasco of the Congress 'within' and 'without' the state of Andhra Pradesh is a case in point. Despite its decisive support to the state formation, the Congress regime failed to evoke any positive response in Telangana electoral battle. In the similar vein, even the BJP that extended crucial support to the state formation had hardly fared well in this election. While the party swept the 2014 polls in most of the states in the name of 'Modi wave', Telangana movement thwarted it here somehow. It's the classic participation and involvement of the Telangana people in this trend-setting movement that it ultimately clinched the statehood.
Although the Telugus have had the history of emerging as the first ever-linguistic state in 1953, in the form of Andhra state that was carved out of erstwhile Madras state, they were seldom satisfied till 1956 when Telangana was merged with them so as to be established as the Andhra Pradesh.
