HYDERABAD: As Telangana is preparing to celebrate a year of their formation, on June 2 who should receive credit for their birth has become a matter of great controversy. Apparently political battle has entered history is written in school textbooks.
Telangana Congress leaders are angry. A new chapter in the history of the tenth class textbook of the state is in the Movement for the formation of Telangana state. It has details on Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao or KCR fast in 2009 and how that led to the birth of the state, but there is not even a mention of the Congress and its president, Sonia Gandhi.
Congress senior leader Mohd Shabbir Ali said KCR even the role of Mrs. Gandhi in the Legislative Council Telangana mentioned and promised that his name be included each time the story is written.
“They themselves, KCR had said that whenever Telangana history is written, the name of Sonia Gandhi will be there in letters of gold. But he has forgotten his own words and we would like to remind you about that,” Ali said.
The government Samithi or TRS in Telangana Telangana Rashtra no apologies. KT Rama Rao, Telangana minister and son of KCR remarks sarcastically that “history is written by the victor.”
“When I say win, I do not mean only victory in electoral politics. I mean evaluate people, people evaluate their contribution is so and then decide. That’s exactly what they did. Who are we to deny people their verdict, “he said.
KT Rama Rao said that if the role of Congress has to be written, there would be much more than that would be controversial. “We must talk about the betrayal of Congress since 1956. The hegemony of Congress, congressional tyranny, injustice perpetrated by the successive Congress and demand eventual government policy of the Congress Party in 2014, the compulsion was conferred on them by the people of Telangana. We have to write a long story. So if Congress is prepared for that, we have no problem. We could consider inclusion. Because all the suicides that have occurred, struggles that have happened and all the injustices that have occurred Congress is in regime. ”
Technically, the curriculum has been reviewed by an academic committee Telangana State Council of Education Research and Training. Intellectuals say the ruling class do not usually have a say in the way history is written and remembered, but it is unfortunate that politics is taking its toll in history.
