The entire bifurcation mess happened for 5 reasons.
1.Coastal AP is very fertile with farmers prospering, Telangana farmers aren't prospering so they were instigated to believe being part of AP is the reason for their misery.
2.KCR wanted to gain political relevance but he's relegated to speaker of assembly by CBN, originally he's from coastal AP but his community are a majority in Telangana so he started separate Telangana movement to gain political momentum.
3.CBN transformed Hyderabad city into a world class hub to serve his community lobbyist real estate interests, this has also irked Telangana people.
4.YSR Reddy Jagan Reddy father became too big and challenged Sonia soon after Reddy Sr died mysteriously in a helicopter crash and Sonia refused Jagan to replace his father citing his inexperience, Jagan then had a fallout with her and he again funded Telangana movement through KCR(he was pacified by being offered cabinet berth earlier).
5.The combined MP strength of AP was 42 too big for Sonia to ignore and the industrialist lobby business interests of AP are too difficult to satisfy for the Congress high command.
So eventually when UPA decided to break the state, the bone of contention was Hyderabad the cash cow, eventually to pacify AP people Sonia brought the special status mantra. I don't think special status is neither needed nor a possibility. Everybody knows fully well it's an empty promise and Pawan Kalyan reinvented his political relevance through the special status topic. Now that BJP has some control over all those states which might need special status Modi might create something and call it the cousin or equivalent of special status, which may not cost so much to the exchequer.
Originally posted by: CuckooCutter7
do you think the centre should give SC status to Andhra? Back in late 90s, CBN was able to develop Hyderabad and put it on the IT map, with not much support from the centre. Why cant he do similar magic now and develop the capital city where he wants it? My issue with giving SC funds to some states is it leads to suboptimal allocation of resources that is based on political considerations and not market. UP, Bihar, orissa can also all lay claim for greater need..
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