भास्कर ओपिनियन: अलग आदिवासी प्रदेश की माँग आखिर क्यों उठी?

Banswara MP Rajkumar Roat addressing the tribals at the Maha Rally in Mangarh on Thursday (July 18).

When Uttarakhand was separated from Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh was separated from Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand was separated from Bihar, Telangana was separated from Andhra, there were many reasons for this. Geographical, economic and backwardness too. All these states were geographically very vast earlier. They were very large.

Even if the state governments wanted to, they were not able to develop all the parts of such a large state equally. This was the reason that big states were divided and made smaller. But the question is, did the governments develop the states equally even after making them smaller? No.

Can you call every area of ​​Jharkhand as developed as Ranchi today? Can every inch of Chhattisgarh be called as developed as Raipur today? Are Uttarakhand and Telangana equally fertile even today?

Whose fault is it? The political parties? Or the vote bank politics on which they are running? Or the leaders who need the votes of the tribals to win but do not want to do anything for their development. Even if those leaders are themselves tribals!

There has been a demand for a new Bhil state by combining some districts of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Gujarat. But the rest of the parties or the ruling parties are bent on rejecting this demand saying that a separate state cannot be created on the basis of caste.

That’s right. But this is not just a matter of caste. The backwardness of the region and the lack of access to education there the way it has in other areas is also a big reason. In fact, it should be said that this is the biggest reason.

By electing youth like Rajkumar Roat, these tribals now want to develop their region themselves. They want to do it in their own way. The demand for a separate tribal state is the anger that erupts due to being the victim of injustice by public representatives for years.

Unfortunately, our political systems and governments wait for the anger of a caste, community or group to burst out. Before that, they do not even think about the development of that region or that group. It is natural for anger to burst out.