Telangana: new India state is 60-year dream come true
- 5 years ago
Hyderabad: Nearly six decades of long struggle, sometimes bloody, by the people of Telangana to have their own state finally appears to have borne fruit.
Bowing its head to strong popular sentiment, reflected in the thousand-odd suicides over the last five years, the United Progressive Alliance has unanimously endorsed the formation of Telangana state.
On a day of fast-paced developments and flurry of meetings in the national capital, the UPA allies met at the residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to hear the Congress leadership's road map for creating what could be the 29th state of India.
The much-awaited development came almost 57 years after a pre-existing Telangana state was merged with coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema to form Andhra Pradesh, the first state to be constituted on the basis of language.
The first clear indication that UPA had made up its mind on the Telangana issue came when Rashtriya Lok Dal leader and union minister Ajit Singh, coming out of the meeting, said that a unanimous decision was taken in favour of Telangana.
But he indicated that Telangana was still a long way to go because there were many issues to be tied up.
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Bowing its head to strong popular sentiment, reflected in the thousand-odd suicides over the last five years, the United Progressive Alliance has unanimously endorsed the formation of Telangana state.
On a day of fast-paced developments and flurry of meetings in the national capital, the UPA allies met at the residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to hear the Congress leadership's road map for creating what could be the 29th state of India.
The much-awaited development came almost 57 years after a pre-existing Telangana state was merged with coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema to form Andhra Pradesh, the first state to be constituted on the basis of language.
The first clear indication that UPA had made up its mind on the Telangana issue came when Rashtriya Lok Dal leader and union minister Ajit Singh, coming out of the meeting, said that a unanimous decision was taken in favour of Telangana.
But he indicated that Telangana was still a long way to go because there were many issues to be tied up.
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