Hyderabad: An open letter to TS minister K.T. Rama Rao, written by an AP citizen ridiculing his calling Telangana as a newborn state in every speech, is making the rounds of social media.
The writer asks if Telangana is really the “youngest state”, if so then how does it have a Metro Rail project, Microsoft, Google and an IT eco-system? How does a new state have a surplus budget? “AP is the youngest state as it does not even have an operational capital,” wrote the unidentified person who only said he/she was a citizen of AP.
“I’ve seen you deliver few speeches; like the one when Tim Cook, Apple CEO, visited Hyderabad and another one you delivered at the TIE conference in Silicon Valley. I love the way you deliver those talks. But in every speech you refer to Telangana as ‘the youngest state of India.’ If it is really the youngest state, how does it have a mega capital ready and operating from day 1, ISB, IIIT and IIT-Hyderabad producing great talents, best airport in the country and a mega cyber city fully functioning and generating thousands of crores of taxes for your party to spend on advertising? None of these qualities seem to be that of a ‘newborn state’,” stated the letter.
According to the writer, the youngest state in the country would be a state that the country itself is not ready to help. The letter stated: “Why do I have a feeling that AP is the youngest state that the country has to take care of until it is strong and independent? The fact that AP doesn’t have a capital to function from makes it the youngest state. AP’s employees aren’t ready to move to its capital for lack of facilities and its CM is operating from a temporary building in the new state. A state trying hard to build IIT, IIM and other institutes, for which the funds given by the Government of India won’t even cover the infrastructure.”
The writer said Andhra Pradesh was the youngest because a state without an IT sector, industries and a state that was in budget crisis every quarter was a new state. The letter has been shared and ‘liked’ many times on social media. One Mr Ankit Naidu posted, “True spirit of an Andhraite, the actual new born state is been ignored.”
