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1969 Telangana Agitation was a political movement for the statehood for Telangana region. It is a major event in Telangana movement. In the indiscriminate police firing, 369 students belonging to Telangana were killed. In December 1953, the States Reorganisation Commission was appointed to prepare for the creation of states on linguistic lines. The commission, due to public demand, recommended disintegration of Hyderabad state and to merge Marathi speaking region with Bombay state and Kannada speaking region with Mysore state. The States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) discussed the pros and cons of a merger between Telugu speaking Telangana region of Hyderabad state and Andhra state. Para 374 of the SRC report said "The creation of Vishalandhra is an ideal to which numerous individuals and public bodies, both in Andhra and Telangana, have been passionately attached over a long period of time, and unless there are strong reasons to the contrary, this sentiment is entitled to consideration".Discussing the case of Telangana, para 378 of the SRC report said "One of the principal causes of opposition of Vishalandhra also seems to be the apprehension felt by the educationally backward people of Telangana that they may be swamped and exploited by the more advanced people of the coastal areas." In its final analysis SRC recommended against the immediate merger. In para 386 it said "After taking all these factors into consideration we have come to the conclusions that it will be in the interests of Andhra as well as Telangana, if for the present, the Telangana area is to constitute into a separate State, which may be known as the Hyderabad State with provision for its unification with Andhra after the general elections likely to be held in or about 1961 if by a two thirds majority the legislature of the residuary Hyderabad State expresses itself in favor of such unification." After going through the recommendations of the SRC, the then Home Minister Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant decided to merge Andhra state and Telangana to form Andhra Pradesh state on 1 November 1956 after providing safeguards to Telangana in the form of Gentlemen's agreement. ==January–April 1969== In the years after the formation of Andhra Pradesh state, people of Telangana expressed dissatisfaction over how the agreements and guarantees were implemented. Discontent intensified in January, when the guarantees that had been agreed on were supposed to lapse. All the Andhra employees who migrated to capital city in 1956 will be considered 'local' in 1969 after 12 years of residence per mulki rules. Student agitation for the continuation of the agreement began at Palvancha in Khammam district and spread to other parts of the region. One section of students (which appeared dominant) wanted a separate state of Telangana while the other wanted implementation of safeguards.〔(College students in Telangana agitation (Indian Express January 16, 1969; page 8-bottom) )〕 On 19 January, all party accord was reached to ensure the proper implementation of Telangana safeguards. Accord's main points were # All non-Telangana employees holding posts reserved for Telangana locals will be transferred immediately # Telangana surpluses will be used for Telangana development # Appeal to Telangana students to call off agitation.〔(Accord reached on Telangana demands(Indian Express January 20, 1969; page 1; top-right) )〕 On January 23, protests turned violent when a crowd of about 1000 agitators tried to set fire to a Sub-Inspector's residence. This resulted in police firing in which 17 people were injured who were admitted to various hospitals. Meanwhile certain Andhra employees challenged the transfer orders promised by the all party accord,by filing a petition in the AP high court.〔(Telangana agitator fires on. 17 hurt ; Transfers challenged in court by Andhra employees (Indian Express Jan 25, 1969; page 1) )〕 On January 29, Army was called in by the government to maintain law & order as the Agitation quickly turned violent.〔(Army asked to patrol major towns in AP(Indian Express January 30, 1969 ; page1) )〕 In February, Mulki rules (local jobs for local people), as promised in Gentleman's agreement, were declared by high court as void but this judgement was stayed by divisional bench of high court.〔(Judgement on Mulki rules stayed(IE Feb 5, 1969 - page 4) )〕 Quoting statistics of development in Telangana area over the last 12 years, the chief minister maintained the state of the Andhra Pradesh was "irreversible" and made an appeal to people to help maintain unity & integrity.〔(CM rules out Telangana state(IE Feb 9- page 4) )〕 Protests continued in March, and a bundh turned violent when protestors burnt buses. In April, protestors tried to disrupt a meeting of CPI (which was opposed to the division of the state) by indulging in stone-pelting. Police had to resort to live firing after their attempts to control the crowd by lathi-charge & firing in the air didn't yield results. In the ensuing firing, 3 people were killed and several injured.〔(Telangana bundh turns violent (IE March 4- page 1) )〕〔(Telangana agitators fight police; Three killed in A.P firing; Bank on fire (IE April 5) )〕 Around 354 arrests were made related to various arson incidents during the agitation. Then Prime minister Indira Gandhi called for a high-level meeting to discuss the issue while ruling out the division of the state.〔(More preventive arrests ; Arson incidents in Telangana continue ; Division out of question: PM (IE April 8, 1969) )〕 After several days of talks with leaders of both regions, on 12 April 1969, Prime minister came up with Eight point plan.〔(point plan for Telangana (IE April 12) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1969 Telangana Agitation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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