Telangana sees a new dawn today on Dec 6, 2013, coincidentally the 57th death anniversary of the architect of our Constitution, BR Ambedkar, whose vision 6 decades ago has now become the lifeline for Telangana’s statehood. Telangana got cabinet approval for it’s Statehood yesterday and it’s draft bill is headed for President’s reference, after which it would come to Andhra Pradesh assembly for eliciting it’s ‘views’, as per Article 3 – the brainchild of BR Ambedkar. There is a debate, even among intellectuals like P Sainath, on how important and mandatory Assembly resolutions are for carving out states. It is easy for an outsider, unaware of the regional and social divide within AP, to think that AP assembly resolution is ...

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