Telangana: Divided We Stand

By: Parakala Prabhakar/ Forbes India

Businesses in Andhra Pradesh have good reason to worry about the fallout of the Srikrishna Report. But the report indicates that the storm may pass soon. Now that the Srikrishna Committee on Telangana has completed its job, it is for the Union government and the political process to take a call on the situation in Andhra Pradesh.  

Although the committee talked about six options, four of them were set up by it as dummies to be shot down. The five-member body clearly put its weight behind the option of keeping the state united. However, it recommended that some constitutional and statutory measures be put in place to allay the apprehensions in the minds of the people of Telangana region. It recommended the bifurcation of the state only if it is