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Women's college students say `no' to Telangana

Staff Reporter

A majority of participants against separate statehood

TESTING THE WATERS: Students waiting for their turn to cast `vote' on the demand for separate Telangana at St. Theressas College for Women in Eluru on Tuesday.

ELURU: Participants of the `opinion poll' conducted on the campus of St. Theressa College for Women on Tuesday expressed their opposition to the demand for separate Telangana.

The Department of Politics organised the mock poll involving students, faculty and non-teaching staff of the college.

The department developed software with three options - against Telangana; for Telangana and `no opinion' - in a bid to help the participants click any one of the options on the computer. Of the 970 participants, 849 voted against the demand, 102 for and 90 opted for the third option.

Divergent views

Y. Vanaja, a final year B.A. student, said she voted against disintegration of the State. Sacrifices made by stalwarts like Potti Sriramulu and Sardar Vallabhabhai Patel to keep the Telugu-speaking people together would go waste if the demand for separate Telangana were conceded, she added.

She said separate statehood was not an answer to the question of regional imbalances in development that germinated the demand for disintegration of the State.

However, V. Vijayachamundeswari of the same class differed with her classmate. "The smaller the State the better the administration," she felts. What was wrong if the Telugu-speaking people had two States when Hindi-speaking people had seven States," she argued.

B.V. Lakshmi, Head of the Department, said the exercise was intended to help students keep themselves abreast with the latest issues concerning the State and the country.

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