New Delhi: The countdown has begun for the creation of the 29th state of India, Telangana. Telangana will officially be born at midnight tonight and TRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao will sworn in as the first chief minister on Monday morning. The creation will bring to end a struggle for separate statehood that has lasted 60 years.
Telangana will comprise of 10 of Andhra Pradesh's 23 districts. Originally, the region was a part of the erstwhile Nizam's princely state of Hyderabad.
In 1948, India had put an end to the rule of the Nizams and a Hyderabad state was formed. In 1956, the Telangana part of Hyderabad was merged with the Andhra state, which had been carved out of Madras Presidency in 1953 after Potti Sreeramulu's agitation for Telugu statehood.
Telangana will officially be born at midnight tonight and Chandrashekar Rao will sworn in as the first chief minister on Monday.
The people from Telangana were against the merger with Andhra as they feared job losses. The reason behind it was that the education level and development in Andhra were better as compared to Telangana. There were cultural differences too. Under Nizam's rule, the culture and language in Telangana bore influences of north India.
In 1969, the Telangana movement intensified under the leadership of Marri Chenna Reddy and the Telangana Praja Samithi. There was widespread violence and over 350 protesters were killed in police firing and lathicharge. The movement, however, could not last long as Chenna Reddy went on to merge his party with the Congress and was eventually made chief minister by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
In 2001, the movement revived once again when K Chandrasekhar Rao quit the Telugu Desam Party and formed the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. In 2004, the Congress joined hands with Rao, promising separate Telangana but later backtracked.
In 2009, Chandrashekhara Rao's fast unto death forced the then Union Home Minister P Chidambaram to announce the creation of a separate state of Telangana. The Centre appointed a commission headed by a retired judge of the Supreme Court, BN Srikrishna to look into the matter of bifurcation. The Commission submitted its report in December 2010 and it was rejected by the TRS.
The late chief minister YS Rajashekhara Reddy's son YS Jaganmohan Reddy's decision to quit the Congress to launch his own outfit YSR Congress Party once again revived the Telangana debate.
The Congress-led UPA created Telangana hoping that it would help the party to win more seats. But, it was routed in the recent Lok Sabha and Assembly polls. The TRS which was in the forefront of Telangana movement swept both Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
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