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Political Realignment and the Birth of a Dedicated Telangana Political Platform
Background: From Civil-Society Mobilisation to Political Formation
- By the late 1990s, the Telangana movement had expanded through intellectuals, students, writers, cultural organisations, civil-society groups and political forums.
- Organisations such as the Telangana United Front attempted to bring the separate Telangana demand into wider public mobilisation.
- However, the United Front concluded that civil-society conferences and awareness programmes alone were insufficient to transform the demand into a sustained people's political movement.
- The search therefore began for a prominent political leader who could provide an organised political direction to the movement.
