Telangana Formation- On this historic day of 18th February 2014, Indian lower house i.e., Loksabha passed AP Reorganization bill with Voice vote.

To mark an end to six decades long people’s struggle and fullfill the aspirations of the formation of Telangana, biggest step was accomplished on this day, a decade ago.

Telangana Formation-History:

The state’s Reorganization which was done resulted the formation of Andhra Pradesh on linguistic basis was always a wedding without consent or forceful marriage.

Merging of erstwhile Hyderabad state with Coastal districts of Telugu speaking Madras state was an undisputed injustice. Telangana, a state with a different dialect, customs, traditions, festivals and economically surplus budget flourished by Hyderabad as its treasure. And with the loss of Madras to Tamil Nadu, desperate political lobby of Andhra state wanted to merge with Telangana which came in to force in 1956.

This merger forced large scale injustice mainly in government jobs and educational institutions where local students suffered due to their principle language “URDU” and had tough time in recruitments which had English as a primary language. This eventually benefitted educated graduates from coastal districts.

Also, Political balance also tilted towards coastal areas since Telangana had less representatives than Andhra region. Since the formation of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana got less than 10 years of chief ministership’s whereas coastal regions got lion’s share all those times.

Key points of the struggle:

Injustice in Water

Injustice in distribution of funds

Injustice in government jobs

Major turning points of Telangana movement

1969 student’s agitation in Telangana colleges and institutions

2001 formation of TRS-Telangana Rashtra Samithi under KCR

2004- General elections and Coalition of Indian National Congress and TRS

2004- Including formation of Telangana in UPA’s Common minimum programme.

2006- Resignation of KCR as M. P of Karimnagar and his bypoll win over 2 lakhs Majority

2009- FREE zone issue and KCR FAST until Death

2009- Massive students agitation across Telangana universities mainly Osmania university and Kakatiya university

2009- Eruption of public anger over Srikantha Chary, a young student who set himself on fire publicly

2010- Bi-Poll results when all but 1 MLA’S of TRS got re-elected.

2010- Sakhala Janula Samme I.e All people’s strike across all public as well as private institutions and businesses was in full flow

2011- Huge mass people’s movements, public gatherings and demonstrations united every individual of the state and participation was voluntary.

2012 Congress miscalculation of delaying Telangana formation with committee after committee

2014 In desperation of elections and political gains, Congress finally convinced the Parliament to bifurcate the state.

Prominent people and institutions in formation of Telangana

Students of Telangana institutions both in 1969 and 2004-2014

K.Chandra Shekhar Rao and TRS Party

Sonia Gandhi and Congress Party

All Employee unions and Telanagana NGO’s

Poets, Artists, writers, authors and Journalists- Print, News and Electronic and Press

All sections of Telangana