Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao

Celebrations as India gets new state of Telangana

Published by Hurriyet on Mon, 06/02/2014 - 12:00

Celebrations erupted in southern India to mark Monday's creation of the new state of Telangana, the culmination of a campaign stretching back nearly six decades.
      
Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, who at one stage went on hunger strike as part of the push to create India's 29th state, was sworn in as chief minister during a morning ceremony in Hyderabad.