MAKING JOINT CAPITALS FOR STATES AFTER DIVISION

[A letter by Shri Swami to the Group of Ministers (GOM) for the formation of Telangana State, New Delhi, advising them to make Hyderabad as the joint capital of the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, after their division, instead of building a new capital for Andhra Pradesh.]

Our country is in financial crisis due to lot of loans and hence, every rupee must be carefully spent to achieve maximum utility avoiding even a trace of wastage. When a state is divided in to two or three or four new states, you are spending thousands and lakhs of crores on constructing new buildings for Assembly, Secretariat, High Court etc. Already, the buildings are available for conducting Assembly sessions and employees. The already constructed space becomes vacant and for constructing new space, lot of money is wasted. This money can be spent on projects and industries to procure more food and increase the employment etc. Such expenditure for utility will generate income to clear the loans and to satisfy the public. Therefore, please make a firm rule even in the future SRC that whenever a state is divided, the existing capital shall be the joint capital for all the future states. The existing capital already has some extensive potentiality for employment, higher education and services to health etc. Capital does not mean only assembly, secretariat and high court. The new capital may become equal to the old capital of today after a long span of time. But, the old capital also grows in that long span of time and hence, the new capital can never become equal to the old capital. Therefore, the injustice for the state having new capital can never be compensated as you see the case of Hyderabad.

Even if you create the opportunity of employment in the private sector for Seemandhra region in and around Hyderabad, the tax revenue of those Seemandhra employees goes only to Telangana region. Therefore, joint capital is the only solution in view of the above said reason also. If you meet the main demand of one region, you must address all the concerns of the other region. In the present decision, you are not only accepting the main demand of one region but also addressing the concerns of the same region. You are neither meeting the main demand nor addressing the concerns of other region. This is sheer injustice. The revenue from Hyderabad should be divided between the two states after meeting the expenditure of development of Hyderabad.

The government is said to represent God (Naavishnuh pruthivi patih...) in doing equal justice to all the human beings governed by it. If the government does injustice to any region, the divine government of God will seriously punish.

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