Telangana Rashtra Samithi
| Telangana Rashtra Samithi తెలంగాణ రాష్ట్ర సమితి |
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| Party leader | K. Chandrashekar Rao |
| founding | May 17, 2001 |
| Place of foundation | Hyderabad |
| Alignment | regionalism |
| Website | trspartyonline.org |
Telangana Rashtra Samithi ( Telugu తెలంగాణ రాష్ట్ర సమితి , "Association for Telangana") is a regional political party in the southern Indian state of Telangana .
Party history
The history of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi is closely related to the autonomy movement in Telangana. After India gained independence in 1947, the old administrative structures from the British colonial era were initially continued. In 1956, the States Reorganization Act rearranged the states according to linguistic and ethnic criteria, and the Telugu -speaking areas of southern India became the state of Andhra Pradesh . Andhra Pradesh essentially consisted of three areas: the coastal region of Andhra, the Rayalaseema region in the southern inland, and Telangana in the northern inland. The first two had belonged to the British presidency of Madras during colonial times , the latter had been part of the Sultanate of Hyderabad . In an agreement known as the gentlemen's agreement , the political representatives and the people of Telangana were assured that it would have a certain autonomy within the framework of Andhra Pradesh and that the resources would be shared among the parts of the country. In the following decades, however, there were repeated unrest in Telangana, as many residents felt disadvantaged compared to the coastal region. In 1969 the Telangana Praja Samithi (TPS) party was founded, which specifically wanted to represent the interests of the people of Telangana and won 10 of the 14 constituencies in Telangana in the parliamentary elections in India in 1971 . The ruling Congress Party then made concessions and the TPS disbanded in 1971 or joined the Congress Party.
The dissatisfaction was not eliminated, but revived later. Against this background, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) was founded on May 17, 2001 in Hyderabad . The party founder was K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), who is also the party chairman to this day (2014). KCR was previously a member of the Telugu Desam Party and held ministerial offices in the Andhra Pradesh government. Since he did not see the interests of Telangana adequately represented, he founded the TRS with the stated aim of separating Telangana from Andhra Pradesh and creating a new state of Telangana. Between 2004 and 2006 the TRS joined the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led by the Congress Party . In the 2004 elections to the Parliament of Andhra Pradesh, the TRS won 26 of the 294 constituencies of Andhra Pradesh and in the all-India parliamentary election of 2004 five of the 42 constituencies of Andhra Pradesh. After the government under Manmohan Singh had made no effort in order to create a state of Telangana, the TRS turned back by the Congress Party, and joined forces with the Telugu Desam Party and various parties of the left spectrum of the so-called Third Front on, changed but then to the camp of the National Democratic Alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) . Both the election in Andhra Pradesh and the election for Lok Sabha in 2009 were disappointing for the TRS.
After massive pro-Telangana strike movements between 2011 and 2013, the Lok Sabha passed the law on the creation of a new state of Telangana on February 18, 2014 with the support of the major parties (Congress Party, BJP). In the elections for the state parliament of Andhra Pradesh and the all-India parliament in 2014 , the TRS, which was able to sell these changes as a success of its own policy, achieved a significant gain and won 63 of the 119 constituencies for the future parliament of Telangana and 11 of the 17 Lok Sabha- Telangana constituencies . On June 2, 2014, K. Chandrashekar Rao, the previous leader of the TRS in the Lok Sabha, was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of Telangana . The election on November 7, 2018 for the Parliament of Telangana was also won by the TRS with a large majority and Rao was confirmed in office as Chief Minister.
Election results
The TRS only ran for elections in the Telangana region. This has 17 constituencies for the all-Indian parliament (Lok Sabha) and 119 constituencies for the federal state parliament.
| year | choice | Won constituencies |
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| 2004 | Parliamentary election in Andhra Pradesh 2004 |
26/294 |
| 2004 |
 Election for Lok Sabha 2004
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5/543 |
| 2009 | General election in Andhra Pradesh 2009 |
10/294 |
| 2009 |
Election for Lok Sabha 2009
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2/543 |
| 2014 | General election in Andhra Pradesh 2014 |
63/294 |
| 2014 |
Election for Lok Sabha 2014
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11/543 |
| 2018 | General election in Telangana 2018 |
88/119 |
| 2019 |
Election for Lok Sabha 2019
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9/543 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ M Kodandaram: Telangana Marginalized. The New Indian Express, December 8, 2009, accessed June 12, 2014 .
- ^ TRS withdraws support to UPA government. September 23, 2006, accessed September 8, 2014 .
- ↑ RS gives nod, Telangana set to become 29th state. Hindustan Times, February 20, 2014, accessed June 12, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Telangana Result Status. Election Commission of India, accessed December 22, 2018 .
- ^ Statistical Report on General Election, 2004 to the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh. (PDF) Election Commission of India, accessed June 13, 2014 .
- ^ Statistical Report on General Election, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha. (PDF) Election Commission of India, accessed April 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Statistical Report on General Election, 2009 to the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh. (PDF) Election Commission of India, accessed June 13, 2014 .
- ^ General Elections 2009. Press Information Bureau, Government of India, accessed April 5, 2014 .
- ↑ ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA GENERAL \ BYE ELECTION TO VIDHAN SABHA TRENDS & RESULT 2014. Election Commission of India, accessed on June 13, 2014 (English).
- ↑ This figure reflects the results in Andhra Pradesh before the separation of Telangana on June 2, 2014. The TRS ran only in Telangana, where it won 63 of the 119 constituencies.