HYDERABAD: Stating that politicians from Telangana had betrayed the people of the region by not pressing the demand for formation of Telangana State since 1952, freedom fighter Burgula Narsing Rao said today that pro- Telangana organisations should chalk out a plan to strengthen the ongoing agitation if tomorrow’s allparty meeting in Delhi failed to arrive at a consensus.

The Hyderabad Forum for Telangana convened a meeting to discuss `Hyderabad: Myths, Facts and Realities’ at the Urdu Hall here.

Participating in the debate, Narsing Rao said politicians from Telangana had conceived and nurtured the idea of a separate State but jettisoned it when they were in power. Nonimplementation of the Gentlemen’s Agreement and Mulki rule by successive governments made the people frustrated, he pointed out.
``Nizam’s prime minister Salar Jung had introduced modern administration in the then Hyderabad state and invited administrators from the neighboring regions. The public works department was established in 1868 and a municipal administration system was first introduced in 1869 in the city.

``A taxation structure was also established for revenues from properties, transportation, water supply and roads and buildings. The municipal administration soon built a number of public buildings, hospital and gardens to develop the city. No effort was made by Andhra and Rayalaseema leaders in developing Hyderabad,’’ Rao asserted.

Ali Zahir, a well-known Urdu poet, said that all Muslims were extending their support to the current agitation for a separate Telangana. The Telangana region would develop if the separate state were formed. Hyderabad city will certainly be the capital of Telangana,’’ he said.
Mallepalli Lakshmaiah, senior journalist, warned that if leaders from Andhra and Rayalaseema continued to come in the way of a separate Telangana, the people of the region would teach them a bitter lesson.

``All Andhra and Rayalaseema politicians are focused on Hyderabad because they invested crores of rupees in and around the city,’’ he alleged.

Rama Melkote, president of Hyderabad Forum for Telangana, and M Vedakumar, president of Better Forum for Hyderabad, also attended the meeting.

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