One family that can be credited with driving a permanent wedge between the Telugus is the ‘Kalavakuntla’ family. And they will probably stoke the fire of hatred against the Andhras as long as they exist in politics because that is the only way they know to come to power and retain it. Water issues, power sharing, fee reimbursement etc are issues between AP and Telangana and one can understand it if Telangana complains against AP or vice-versa. But crying foul against AP over central allotment is nothing short of ridiculous. TRS MP Kavitha, the great leader says that the Centre is discriminating against Telangana and showing favoritism towards AP.
She says that AP has got an obscene number of houses allotted under the urban development scheme compared to Telangana. The MP would do well to remember that Rajasthan which is a BJP ruled state has also been allotted lesser number of houses than AP. And did KCR himself the other day not make a public statement saying that the houses being built under the Central government scheme were of inferior and substandard quality compared to his 2BHK palaces? Why cry over it then? And here comes the biggest joke of all! She is angry that the Center has not announced either a special status or a special package to Telangana even 16 months after coming to power. One the one hand, her dad says that Telangana is the only revenue surplus state in the country after Gujarat and here she is crying for special status.
Special status, my dear lady, is given to needy states, states with a revenue crunch. And further, she says that the NDA has not sanctioned even a single higher educational institute to Telangana while AP has been given many. How many top educational institutes are located in Hyderabad and has AP not lost out on them all? Does AP have even 1/10th of the super-specialty hospitals located in Hyderabad? Where is the logic to her comments? But then, how can one expect logic from a person who despite being a Member of Parliament says that Telangana and Kashmir were independent states forcibly inducted into the Indian Union and that the travails of both states started since then?