The Hyderabad high court has permitted the Telangana government to go ahead with the controversial household survey on the assurance of the state's advocate general that the exercise was not mandatory and denizens could choose not to answer the queries of enumerators.
Residents of Hyderabad who originally came from Andhra areas are scared. The fear that this is to profile them and use the information against them at a later stage.
The out of state workers from Telangana fear that if they fail to stand up and counted in the survey they will cease to be 'citizens' of Telangana and will lose their property and other rights in the state.
According to Telengana Govt. the Survey is for weeding out bogus beneficiaries but people from Andhra origin feels that the Survey akin to racial profiling and therefore illegal.
Residents of Hyderabad who originally came from Andhra areas are scared. The fear that this is to profile them and use the information against them at a later stage.
Governments stay for 5 yrs. States are permanent. People are permanent residents of a state. We need peace & harmony among Telugu people.
— N Chandrababu Naidu (@ncbn) August 17, 2014
The out of state workers from Telangana fear that if they fail to stand up and counted in the survey they will cease to be 'citizens' of Telangana and will lose their property and other rights in the state.
According to Telengana Govt. the Survey is for weeding out bogus beneficiaries but people from Andhra origin feels that the Survey akin to racial profiling and therefore illegal.
