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Persisitent calls for a separate telangna has forced minority muslims to firmly oppose the demand, as a history of oppression haunts, says Naresh Nunna
Even as the demand for separate statehood for Telangan region in Andhra Pradesh continues to intensify by the day, an agitation is slowly but surely brewing among the local Muslim community. The cause behind this antagonism – and opposition – of the Muslim politicians and organisations towards the formation of a new state is their deep-rooted fear of ‘oppression’, the fear that history will repeat itself and the minorities may lose their stack in the ‘Saffron’ Telangana. “Muslim opposition to a separate Telangana is not new. We opposed Telangana state during the violent agitation in 1969 too. And this opposition has continued till date,” Asaduddin Owaisi, the new boss of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) told TSI.
So what are the reasons for Muslim reluctance, when a large majority of the region’s populace as well as political parties are demanding a Telangana state? A fear of sharp communal polarisation, which will jeopardise the interests of the minorities, say leaders of Muslim United Forum (MUF), of which MIM is a member group. The forum leaders feel that the psyche of the average Telangana Hindu and the psyche of the political outfits, irrespective of their affiliations, have been distorted with anti-Muslim ferment, with the bitter memories of atrocious Razakars in Telangana armed struggle. “Razakars, the brutal Muslim private army during the Nizam’s regime, had persecuted innocent masses in connivance with Deshmuks and other feudal Lords. Though more than 50 per cent of them were non-Muslims, the Telangana armed struggle was basically portrayed to be anti-Muslim,” says Sk Yusuf Baba, an analyist of the MUF.
In the aftermath of the police action against the armed struggle, several thousand Muslim men were killed by hoodlums, their women raped or forced to commit suicide by jumping into wells to save their honour. Muslim properties were burnt and their agricultural lands were grabbed, resulting in large-scale migration from the rural area and towns in the affected districts to Hyderabad. However, due to the prevalence of communal enmity towards the Muslim masses, these cases of heinous atrocities on this community living in several outlying districts in Marathwada and Hyderabad-Karnatak region of erstwhile Hyderabad state were buried on the sly, he averred.
The MUF leaders say that besides ‘communal’ parties like the Bharatiya Janata Party, even the ‘so-called secular parties’ like Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), which claims to be the cultural spearhead of Telangana, are dominated by leaders with the background of rightwing Hindu groups like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The MUF leaders point out the absolute absence of Muslim leaders in TRS as inference to their argument. After being transformed from the ruling class to the ruled overnight, following the police action against the Nizam’s Hyderabad state in 1948, the Muslims were brought to an acute sense of insecurity with the Hyderabad trifurcation, which divided them into three political and geographical entities. With the change in official language in government offices, thousands of Muslim employees, who only knew Urdu, remained jobless and obviously were necked out. Thus, socio-economic deprivation of the Muslims, which began in the early 1950s, got accentuated with systematic exploitation of Telangana.
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Persisitent calls for a separate telangna has forced minority muslims to firmly oppose the demand, as a history of oppression haunts, says Naresh Nunna
Even as the demand for separate statehood for Telangan region in Andhra Pradesh continues to intensify by the day, an agitation is slowly but surely brewing among the local Muslim community. The cause behind this antagonism – and opposition – of the Muslim politicians and organisations towards the formation of a new state is their deep-rooted fear of ‘oppression’, the fear that history will repeat itself and the minorities may lose their stack in the ‘Saffron’ Telangana. “Muslim opposition to a separate Telangana is not new. We opposed Telangana state during the violent agitation in 1969 too. And this opposition has continued till date,” Asaduddin Owaisi, the new boss of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) told TSI.So what are the reasons for Muslim reluctance, when a large majority of the region’s populace as well as political parties are demanding a Telangana state? A fear of sharp communal polarisation, which will jeopardise the interests of the minorities, say leaders of Muslim United Forum (MUF), of which MIM is a member group. The forum leaders feel that the psyche of the average Telangana Hindu and the psyche of the political outfits, irrespective of their affiliations, have been distorted with anti-Muslim ferment, with the bitter memories of atrocious Razakars in Telangana armed struggle. “Razakars, the brutal Muslim private army during the Nizam’s regime, had persecuted innocent masses in connivance with Deshmuks and other feudal Lords. Though more than 50 per cent of them were non-Muslims, the Telangana armed struggle was basically portrayed to be anti-Muslim,” says Sk Yusuf Baba, an analyist of the MUF.
In the aftermath of the police action against the armed struggle, several thousand Muslim men were killed by hoodlums, their women raped or forced to commit suicide by jumping into wells to save their honour. Muslim properties were burnt and their agricultural lands were grabbed, resulting in large-scale migration from the rural area and towns in the affected districts to Hyderabad. However, due to the prevalence of communal enmity towards the Muslim masses, these cases of heinous atrocities on this community living in several outlying districts in Marathwada and Hyderabad-Karnatak region of erstwhile Hyderabad state were buried on the sly, he averred.
The MUF leaders say that besides ‘communal’ parties like the Bharatiya Janata Party, even the ‘so-called secular parties’ like Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), which claims to be the cultural spearhead of Telangana, are dominated by leaders with the background of rightwing Hindu groups like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The MUF leaders point out the absolute absence of Muslim leaders in TRS as inference to their argument. After being transformed from the ruling class to the ruled overnight, following the police action against the Nizam’s Hyderabad state in 1948, the Muslims were brought to an acute sense of insecurity with the Hyderabad trifurcation, which divided them into three political and geographical entities. With the change in official language in government offices, thousands of Muslim employees, who only knew Urdu, remained jobless and obviously were necked out. Thus, socio-economic deprivation of the Muslims, which began in the early 1950s, got accentuated with systematic exploitation of Telangana.
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An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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