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The Telangana protests 2004-2010 refers to the movements and agitations related to the Telangana movement that took place between the years 2004 and 2010. For the 2004 Assembly and Parliament elections, the Congress party and the TRS had an electoral alliance in the Telangana region to consider the demand of separate Telangana State.
Telangana leaders rejected the plan and protests continued under the leadership of newly formed political party Telangana Praja Samithi in 1969 asking for the formation of Telangana. Under the Mulki rules in force at the time, anyone who had lived in Hyderabad for 12 years was considered a local, and was thus eligible for certain government posts.
Protesters raised slogans of 'Jai Telangana', sang pro-Telangana songs, and played games. Protesters included activists of various political parties, students, government employees, lawyers, doctors, teachers, journalists, writers and cultural artists. 48 people were arrested for the vandalism of the statues.
Telangana Joint Action Committee; 2004–2010 Telangana protests; 2012 Telangana protests; Early 2011 Telangana protests; History of the Telangana movement; Late 2011 Telangana protests; Mid 2011 Telangana protests; Pre-2004 Telangana protests; Telangana Vimochana Samithi; Telangana: The State of Affairs
A new book by former L.A. Times correspondent Vincent Bevins takes a close look at the 2010s, a decade of mass protest — and why they mostly failed.
The movement took shape on 9 December 2009, when as a result of an 11-day fast by Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram announced that the Indian government would start the process of forming a separate Telangana state pending the introduction and passage of a separation resolution in the Andhra Pradesh assembly.
The Mid 2011 Telangana protests refers to a chain of protests and mass resignations following the Million March incident in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. From April till June, the movement saw a lull, [ 1 ] with different parties citing various reasons and fresh deadlines to renew the agitation.
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