Politics of Bifurcation: Role of TJAC as a Pressure Group
| Published date | 01 July 2015 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019556120150315 |
| Date | 01 July 2015 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
POLITICS
OF
BIFURCATION:
ROLE
OFT
JAC
AS
A
PRESSURE GROUP
I. RAMABRAHMAMAND SAVIDI SATHAIAH
The experiment
of
reorganisation
of
states in India on
language seems to have
failed
as domination
of
a sub-
region over the other
and
imposition
of
a 'development
model'
that
produced
negative results. While 'language
pressure groups' succeeded in convincing political elites
for carving out the first linguistic state
in
India, subsequent
developments show that common language cannot always
keep people together. In fact, differences in dialects
of
three
regions
of
erstwhile Andhra Pradesh reinforced their primary
identities despite standardisation efforts by media and other
state agencies.
The
resistance
to
merge the regions was ignored
by the leadership leading
to
many successive agitations for
six decades. Historically, the demand
for.
Telangana state has
seen many forms
of
protest and accommodation politics. The
recent creation
of
the 2f)lh state
of
the Indian Union is credited
to a unified movement
of
political parties, organised
and
unorganised pressure groups fighting under one apex body
called Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC).
This
article
attempts
to
reconstruct the role ofTJAC
as
a pressure group and
its unique forms
of
protest and mobilisation
to
achieve the goal.
INTRODUCTION
TELANGANA AS a separate state was created by dividing the then
Andhra
Pradesh
on
June 2, 2014.
The
creation
of
Telangana
is a
major political event before 2014 elections. The movement
cut
across
professions
and
disciplines.
It
now
promises
ushering
in
golden
Telangana with its own cultural identity and economic independence.
Many would recall that it was not
at
all easy either for the Centre or
Telengana
Rashtra
Samithi {TRS)
with
opposition
from
different
quarters including from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) which agreed and
backed out citing various apprehensions.
If
one looks at the Telangana
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