KCR's 'war room' diktat fanning tensions in Telangana

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao's puritanical 'war room' diktat of not allowing a single person from Seemandhra to enter or work in his state secretariat appears to have given rise to a palpable communal turn on the lines of a Hindu-Muslim divide.

This so-called 'war room' has been entrusted with the task of unearthing those people who have wrongly acquired identification cards like the Aadhar card, or pan card to get a job.

There is a 'Damocles Sword' hanging over those exposed, and they will be kicked out of the state.

Rao, who is Telangana's first chief minister, has issued a stern warning on the nativity of state secretariat employees.

He has made it clear that only employees born in Telangana would be accepted as Telangana employees, and those from Andhra, will have to work in Seemandhra.

"Would not let the Seemandhra employees (if conferred Telangana cadre) to even touch the Telangana Secretariat gate," the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief had reportedly said while addressing a meet of Telangana employees.

"Telangana employees should work in the Telangana secretariat and Andhra employees in Andhra. There should not be any adulteration here," he had added

The bellicosity is so intense that there are antagonistic viewpoints.

The people from Telangana have hailed KCR's decision as justifiable.

For most of the people who have born and have grown up here, emotions have run high. Some senior individuals said, "justice has been done, who witnessed the agitation in 1969, recalled the lives that had been sacrificed for the formation of the 29th state, including the many students who had immolated themselves."

Seemandhraites on the other hand have strong reservations, and blame the Congress Party for all the hell that has broken loose. They have described KCR as 'immature'.

They also allege that KCR doesn't have the qualities to run a state and have criticised the move by his team of collating data tags names as "Telangana Employee" or "Seemandhra Employee".

The 29th state of India, which was supposed to end the long-standing bitter tensions between Telanganites and Seemandhraites, may not experience or enjoy peace any time soon.