NEW STATE FORMED:TELANGANA

On 1st June in the mid night new state formed ,TELANGANA..

 The Telangana movement dates back to the 1950s, when a demand arose for a separate Telangana state comprising the 10 districts that were administered by the Nizam of Hyderabad. In 1956, the Telangana region was clubbed with the Coastal and Rayalseema regions that were earlier under the Madras Presidency to form Andhra Pradesh. But this left many aggrieved, and the proposal of a separate state of Telangana kept popping up from time to time.

The movement gained traction in 2001, when the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) was formed under the leadership of K Chandrasekhar Rao with a clear agenda: the creation of a separate state. The TRS was an ally of the BJP in the NDA and then switched to the Congress in 2004. But Rao later quit the UPA disillusioned. He famously went on a fast-unto-death in late 2009. The idea of this was to test how hard he could press his demand. His agitation was quickly joined by pro-Maoist elements and students of Osmania University.

The movement gathered steam after P Chidambaram, who was then India’s Home Minister, made a midnight announcement of Telangana’s creation on 9 December 2009. The Congress has now done as it said it would.

            MIDNIGHT celebrations heralded the birth of the new state of Telangana on Sunday(1st June 2014), ending the decades-old struggle for statehood. Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief Kalvakuntla Chandrasekhara Rao, 60, will be sworn in as the first Chief Minister of Telangana at 8:15 am on Monday — the grand finale of the bifurcation process that started on December 9, 2009, when the then UPA government promised KCR, who was at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences at Hyderabad after undertaking an indefinite fast, that the process of creating a separate state had been set in motion.

But the party began on Sunday night itself as special teams from Mumbai lit up the skies in Hyderabad with a dazzling display of perfumed firecrackers.

The hour-long celebrations were held mainly at Tank Bund and Necklace Road, abutting the Hussain Sagar lake, which saw many agitations and student protests. Fireworks displays were also held at 50 other places across the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.

As the clock struck midnight, “Jaya jayahe Telanganga janani jaya ketanam”, which will be the official song of Telangana state, was played on loudspeakers. The Golconda, Assembly complex, Gun Park, Tank Bund, Necklace Road and monuments in Hyderabad were all lit up.

Before KCR takes oath on Monday(2nd June 2014), the Governor of undivided Andhra Pradesh E S L Narasimhan will take oath as the Governor of Telangana at 6:30 am, and President’s Rule will be revoked in the new state. Narasimhan will then swear in KCR. A 10-member Cabinet is also likely to be sworn in.The TRS won 63 of the 119 seats in the newly-formed Telangana Assembly.

After the swearing-in ceremony, KCR is scheduled to attend the official Telangana Formation Day celebrations at Parade Grounds, Secunderabad, where he will meet all his party leaders. He is then scheduled to enter the Chief Minister’s Office in Block C of the Telangana Secretariat at 12:57 pm — he is superstitious about the number 6.