TELANGANA MOVEMENT

                        TELANGANA MOVEMENT  

KCR: The man who revived Telangana movement. K.Chandrashekar Rao Garu CM of state played a major role in this movement. KCR, as he is popularly known among his supporters, almost achieved the goal in 2009 by going on an indefinite fast, forcing the central government to announce that the process for separate state will be initiated. However the coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions forced the centre to put the issue in cold storage.

 

   KCR, a four time member of the Andhra Pradesh assembly, also served as minister in the TDP government. He was elected to the Lok sabha from Karimnagar in 2004 and from Mahabubnagar in 2009.

       KCR is the only person who started alone by floating Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS). He also gave the slogan of Self-respect and Self-rule. Though KCR Succeeded in taking the Telangana issue to the centre stage and extracted promises from the congress led UPA government, for some years he failed to achieve his goal.

       He has two children son K.Tarakarama Rao is a member of the assembly and daughter K.kavitha heads Telangana Jagruthi, a cultural group.Though the centre backtracked , the movement for separate state had reached every home in the region. Many protests and suicide of over 900 people forced all parties to come together for acommon goal.

KCR DEEKSHA

  It was around 11 am on November 29 that KCR sat on the hunger strike at Rangadhampally crossroads in Alaganur village near Siddipet, demanding a separate Telangana. As the tension spread over all districts of telangana. KCR was arrested and shifted him from Alaganur to Khammam jail.

      The arrest changed the mood of the people who until then were not serious about the separate state. As news of the arrest spread, students, Singareni workers and government staff came to streets. violent incidents were reported at karimnagar and warangal. To control tensions KCR was shifted to NIMS hospital where he continued his fast.

 STUDENT ROLE IN TELAGANA MOVEMENT

            Since the, Students have proven to be asset to spread the movement across the 10 districts of Telangana and making it a people's movement. And in 2009, it was the students call of 'CHALO ASSEMBLY'  which is forced the TRS leader K chndrashekar Rao to continue with his hunger strike demanding a separate state. Then it has turned into full fledged movement.

Many students were given up their careers for the Telangana. Leaders in the TRS also believe that the movement was largely  sucessful because of the sustained student movement.

It is a major event in telangana movement. In the indiscriminate  police firing, 369 Telangana students were died. They fought alonside Akhila Bharathiya Vidya Parishad (ABVP), and the muslim leaders. Right from the mandal levels, students started joining their hands irrespective of caste or religion and ensure that the movement spread far and wide", he said.