Pre-2004 Telangana protests

Part of a series on the
Telangana movement
Telangana region marked in white within the state of Andhra Pradesh (prior to the 2014 split)
Background
States Reorganisation Commission Hyderabad State Andhra State
History
Early events 1952 Mulkhi Agitation 1969 Telangana Agitation Jai Andhra Movement (1972) Six-Point Formula (1973) 2004-2010 Srikrishna Committee and aftermath Srikrishna committee Early 2011 Mid 2011 Late 2011 2012 Formation of Telangana Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014
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The Pre-2004 Telangana protests refers to the movements and agitations related to the Telangana movement that took place before the year 2004. Andhra state and Telangana was merged to form Andhra Pradesh state on 1 November 1956 after providing safeguards to Telangana in the form of Gentlemen's agreement. Soon after the formation of Andhra Pradesh, people of Telangana expressed dissatisfaction over how the agreements and guarantees were implemented. Protests initially led by students later under the leadership of newly formed political party Telangana Praja Samithi, led by M. Chenna Reddy and Konda Lakshman Bapuji, a minister who resigned from the cabinet led by then Chief Minister Kasu Brahmananda Reddy, demanding the formation of a separate state of Telangana. More than three hundred people died in police firing. Under the Mulki rules in force at the time, anyone who had lived in Hyderabad for 15 years was considered a local, and was thus eligible for certain government posts. When the Supreme Court upheld the Mulki rules at the end of 1972, the Jai Andhra movement, with the aim of re-forming a separate state of Andhra, was started in Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions.