Largest Political Gatherings That Attracted Millions

7. 2010: Telangana Maha Garjana:

The 2010 Telangana protests, referred to the movements and agitations related to the Telangana movement, took place between  2004 and 2010 for a demand of a separate state. In 2009, after the Union Minister of Home Affairs, P. Chidambaram announced that the Indian government would start the process of forming a separate Telangana state, students, workers, lawyers and various organizations in the regions launched the Samaikyandhra Movement demanding that the state be kept united and protests across Andhra and Rayalseema. Contrary to the earlier protests, the agitation for a separate state strike a turning point on December 16 2010, when around 12-15 lakh attended the ‘Telangana Maha Garjana’, at Warangal in Andhra Pradesh. The rally set out a series of events that force the Union Government to accept formation of a separate Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh.

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