How the Telangana movement was revived in 2001 and sustained over more than a decade until statehood was achieved.
The Telangana movement was politically revived with the founding of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in 2001 by K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), a former minister in the undivided Andhra Pradesh government, who made separate statehood the party's central and defining demand.
Over the following thirteen years, the movement was sustained through repeated rounds of protests, strikes (bandhs), and political mobilisation. Key milestones included KCR's indefinite hunger strike in 2009, which significantly escalated the movement's national visibility and prompted the central government to make its first formal statement supporting the initiation of a process toward statehood.
The process involved several important committees and reports, including the Srikrishna Committee, set up by the central government to examine the situation in Andhra Pradesh and recommend a way forward — its report, submitted in 2010, outlined multiple options, including statehood, though it did not exclusively endorse an immediate split.
After continued political pressure and negotiation, the central government moved to introduce the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, eventually passed by Parliament in February 2014, formally creating Telangana as a separate state.
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