2004–2010 Telangana protests
[3] In the 2004 Parliament's winter session, BJP advised TRS & Congress not to talk about separate Telangana and concentrate on more important issues such as suicides & starvation deaths.
[6] In September 2006 TRS withdrew support from the coalition government for failing to create an independent Telangana state.
[11][12][13] All TRS legislators in Parliament and in the State (4 MPs, 16 MLAs, and 3 MLCs) resigned in the first week of March 2008 and forced by-elections to increase pressure on the Congress party to take action.
"[21] In February 2009 the state government declared that it had no objection, in principle, to the formation of separate Telangana and that the time had come to move forward decisively on this issue.
[22] In the lead-up to the 2009 General Elections in India, all the major parties in Andhra Pradesh supported the formation of Telangana.
[23] The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) again announced that they would create two more states, Telangana and Gorkhaland, if they won the election.
[24] The Congress Party said it was committed to Telangana statehood,[25] but claimed that Muslim minorities were opposed to the creation of separate state, along with the majority of the people.
[28][29] The Praja Rajyam Party (PRP), founded in August 2008 by film star Chiranjeevi, pledged support to Telangana statehood if it becomes inevitable.
Pro-Telangana supporters celebrated the central government decision, while those from the Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions protested.
[50][51] Within a short time of the Home Minister's declaration, MLAs from the Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions submitted their resignations in protest.
[52] By 16 December, at least 147 MLAs including Praja Rajyam Founder and Telugu actor Chiranjeevi[53] and 22 ministers along with many MPs had resigned.
[61][62][63] MLAs and ministers from Telangana submitted their resignations demanding immediate steps to initiate the process of bifurcating Andhra Pradesh.
[64][65] Pro-Telangana protestors & Osmania University students attacked then Telugu Desam Party leader Nagam Janardhan Reddy, pushed him down, kicked and rained blows on him till he escaped on a bike.
[68] Security establishments submitted an assessment to the prime minister that the creation of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand helped Maoists entrench better, as they took advantage of administrative problems in a new state.
[69] On 3 January 2010 Varavara rao, a Maoist Emissary gave an open call at OU students march to launch a militant fight for the statehood cause.
[71] The JAC started relay hunger strikes and threatened the resignations of all legislators on 28 January, demanding that the Centre spell out its intentions and create a timetable for change.
[73] On 3 February, the JAC organised human chain a distance of 500 kilometres (310 mi) from north to south in Telangana.
[76][77][78] The Jamaat, along with its student wing Students Islamic Organisation of India, organised a massive public meet at Nizam College grounds on 7 February 2010[79] Prominent leaders such as Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, Hamid Mohammed Khan and Khaja Arifuddin addressed the crowd.
Congress and TDP candidates who decided to contest the elections, ignoring the appeal of JAC,[93][94] lost their deposits by obtaining less than one-sixth of the votes in many constituencies.
