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Students happy with separate Telangana state but not with government schemes

2,158 views · Published 3 November 2018 · 5:12 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: ThePrint · 2018 · News & Politics

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It’s been raining sops and freebies for the past five years in Telangana, but it looks far from a cakewalk for the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) in India’s youngest state, which will go to the polls on 7 December.

Blame it on unrealistic expectations after decades of struggle for statehood.

About five weeks ahead of elections, chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao may have reasons to be worried about voices of discontent emanating from several quarters.

The opposition camp — mainly the alliance of the Congress, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the Communist Party of India (CPI), and the Telangana Jan Samiti (TJS) — may not have a cogent narrative or a face with pan-state popularity, but the ruling TRS is confronted with a growing sense of ennui among voters.

There is unmistakable disillusionment among young students at Hyderabad’s Osmania University, the erstwhile hotbed of agitation for statehood, with the state of affairs in the five-year-old state.

Mohan, a PhD scholar at the university who had participated in the statehood agitation, wants a change of guard as he believes the TRS government has failed to fulfil its promises, be it the creation of new jobs, supply of drinking water, or the construction of two-bedroom houses for the poor.

Kalyan, a law student, holds similar views, even though he is happy about statehood. “It’s good that Telangana became a separate state. I can call myself a Telanganite now but…” he trails off.



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