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Great Man Of The Great Telangana
With Telangana set to become the 29th state in India, Kalvakuntla
Chandrasekhara Rao will go down in history as the man who played a key
role by reviving the movement for a separate state 14 years ago.
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 a separate Telangana state
will be initiated. However, the backlash in Rayalaseema and coastal
Andhra regions forced the centre to put the issue in cold storage.
While the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and even Telangana
leaders of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) are now trying to take credit,
even the bitter critics of 60-year-old KCR admit that it was he who
started alone by floating Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).