Most of the national newspapers joined Telangana activists’ rejection of Rayala-Telangana idea by calling it opportunistic. Here is THE HINDU’s editorial. Dangerous opportunism – THE HINDU’s Editorial on Rayala-Telangana Telangana is now close to statehood on the strength of an untiring, intense mass struggle that had its basis in the assertion of historical political identities. To allow electoral calculations to decide the contours of the new state is to undermine the legitimacy of the aspirations that fuelled the original demand for statehood. Nothing but sheer political opportunism explains the new proposal to enlarge the proposed state by adding two districts of the Rayalaseema region, Kurnool and Anantapur, to create what in popular parlance has come to be known as Rayala-Telangana. ...

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