It started with Telangana, or was it Gorkhaland? One can’t be really sure the demand for which new state was the propellant but there can’t be diversity of views that the issue of smaller states has come with full force onto the national picture and will remain there for some time.
Due credit for it must be given to the three parties involved, viz KC Rao, the media, and the Central Government. It took the “historical” step of KC Rao to go on fast unto death, the prominence given to it by the media and the perfect example of ineptness exhibited by the Central Government to make big the issue of small states. So much so that fasting unto death has become the latest technique to hog the limelight.
