Karimnagar district is one of the 33 districts of the Indian state of Telangana. Karimnagar city is its administrative headquarters. The district shares boundaries with Peddapalli,Jagityal,Sircilla,Siddipet,Jangaon,Hanamkonda district and Jayashankar Bhupalapally districts.
Sircilla is a town and the district headquarters of Rajanna Sircilla district in the Indian state of Telangana. It is located on the banks of Manair river in the Sircilla mandal of Sircilla revenue division. It is popularly known as Textile Town due to the presence of large number of power looms,textile processing and dyeing units. It is the biggest textile hub in the state of Telangana with over 40,000 power looms. Sircilla,along with Warangal is proposed to be developed as a mega textile zone by the Telangana government. The first Visalandhra Mahasabha in Telangana was held at Sircilla during the Visalandhra movement.
Boianapalli Vinod Kumar is an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament,presently serving as Vice-chairman of Telangana State Planning Board. He represented the Karimnagar constituency of Telangana State in the 16th Lok Sabha (2014-2019) and Hanamkonda constituency in the 14th Lok Sabha (2004-2009). He is one of the founding members of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party and is presently a politburo member and served as party's deputy Floor Leader in the 16th Lok Sabha.
Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao is an Indian politician from Telangana,associated with Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as Governor of Maharashtra from 2014 to 2019. As a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party,he had served as a Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government from 1999. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998 and 1999 from Karimnagar.
Tulla Devender Goud is an Indian politician from the Telugu Desam Party. He founded the Nava Telangana Praja Party (NTP) to fight for separate statehood for the Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh,but later returned to his parent outfit.
Chandra Rajeswara Rao was an Indian communist politician. He was one of the leaders of the Telangana Rebellion (1946–1951). He also worked as the Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary for 28 years before giving up the post in 1992 due to health reasons.
Nanduri Prasada RaoNPR born as Nandury Durga Mallikarjuna Prasadarao was Prominent communist leader,contributed communist movement in India,he was former member of Indian Parliament upper house Rajya Sabha and former Member of Legislative council (MLC) of Andhra Pradesh. He actively participated in Indian freedom struggle. He was born to Shri Janakiramayya (father).
Anabheri Prabhakar Rao was a Telangana communist guerrilla leader and is also considered a foremost authority of the Telugu language. He was an Indian freedom fighter,considered to be one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. He was an intellectual,military theorist,diplomat and major figure of the Telangana Rebellion. He died fighting against the Nizam and Razakars.
Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy is an Indian politician who served as the 16th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh between 25 November 2010 and 1 March 2014. He was the last Chief Minister of the United Andhra Pradesh before the formation of the Telangana state on 2 June 2014.
Duddilla Sridhar Babu is an Indian politician from Indian National Congress and is a member of the Telangana Assembly. He was a member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly,representing the Indian National Congress. He was the Minister for Civil Supplies,Consumer Affairs,Legal Metrology and Legislative Affairs in the Government of Andhra Pradesh prior to that state being divided. He is now the MLA from Manthani Constituency,which he won in the 2018 Assembly Elections in Telangana. This is his fourth term as MLA. Sridhar Babu is one of the senior most leaders in the Telangana Congress Party Sridhar Babu is an AICC All India Congress Committee Secretary attached to the AICC General Secretary,incharge of Karanataka as of July 2022.
Baddam Yella Reddy was an Indian communist politician from Telangana. He was one of the prominent leaders in the Telangana armed struggle against the Nizam regime.
The early 2011 Telangana protests refers to a chain of events that took place during the early months of 2011,after the Srikrishna committee report was submitted to government of India. These protests are part of Telangana movement. The Telangana political JAC declared the launch of a non-cooperation movement throughout Telangana,including the state capital at Hyderabad,starting on 17 February. The plan was to request government employees not to work;people not to pay taxes or utility bills;people not to buy tickets while using public transport;to organise rallies;to block traffic on highways;and other measures. It is reported that Congress party's central leadership told Telangana MPs that it will take a decision on Telangana after assembly elections in several states in May. On 24 February,Telangana political JAC organised Egypt-like mass protests in Hyderabad beginning 10 March. Projections for number of people to be mobilised varied from one to five million. Protesters raised slogans of 'Jai Telangana',sang pro-Telangana songs,and played games. Protesters included activists of various political parties,students,government employees,lawyers,doctors,teachers,journalists,writers and cultural artists. 48 people were arrested for the vandalism of the statues. A Telangana leader said the incident show the hatred towards leaders of Andhra and he fears more such incidents if the central government further delays the process to carve out separate Telangana state. Osmania University students warned non-Telangana staff of the university to not pass on the identities of agitators to the police and warned them they could become targets if they did not join the agitation.
The Telangana protests 2004-2010 refers to the movements and agitations related to the Telangana movement that took place between the years 2004 and 2010. For the 2004 Assembly and Parliament elections,the Congress party and the TRS had an electoral alliance in the Telangana region to consider the demand of separate Telangana State. However,again in 2006,the then Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy categorically said that the state would remain united. This again resulted in statewide protests. In 2009,Union Minister of Home Affairs P. Chidambaram announced that the Indian government would start the process of forming a separate Telangana state,pending the introduction and passage of a separation resolution in the Andhra Pradesh assembly after an 11-day fast by Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao. This again resulted in protests across both Andhra and Rayalseema as in a short time of the Home Minister's declaration,MLAs from the Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions submitted their resignations in protest.
Anumula Revanth Reddy is an Indian politician from Telangana. He is the Member of parliament (MP) in the 17th Lok Sabha,from the Indian National Congress representing the Malkajgiri constituency. He was a two-time Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Kodangal constituency from Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Andhra Pradesh Assembly between 2009 and 2014 and Telangana Assembly between 2014 and 2018. In October 2017,he left TDP and joined Congress. In June 2021,he was appointed the president of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee.
Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao,popularly known by his initials KTR,is an Indian politician serving as the Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development;Industries and Commerce;and Information Technology,Electronics and Communications of Telangana. A Member of Legislative Assembly for Sircilla,Rao is the working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi.
Siddipet district is a district located in the northern region of the Indian state of Telangana. Its headquarters is Siddipet. This district contains a part of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region(Markook Mulugu Wargal) The district shares boundaries with Jangaon,Sircilla,Karimnagar,Kamareddy,Hanamkonda,Yadadri,Medhchal and Medak districts.
Nandyala Srinivasa Reddy was a Member of Legislative Assembly,Andhra Pradesh a leader of the Telangana Rebellion,and Communist Party of India political activist. He is popularly known as NSR. NSR advocated against feudalistic policies.
Devulapalli Venkateswara Rao (1917-1984) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the 2nd Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Nalgonda constituency of Telangana.
Chennamaneni Ramesh is an Indian politician. He won four times as an MLA from the Vemulawada constituency in the Telangana Legislative Assembly,three time on Telangana Rashtra Samithi ticket. After denying a ticket for the 2023 elections due to his pending citizenship case in the high court,the chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao appointed his as the advisor to the government on agriculture affairs with Cabinet rank on 25 August 2023 for a five-year term.
