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It was today that the Deeksha divas was taken up by KCR the BRS boss. He gave the slogan Telangana Vachudo-KCR sachudo.
The fast unto death, observed by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi as ‘Deeksha Divas’, was, however, the turning point in the entire agitation, a fact acknowledged by Congress leader Jairam Ramesh too in his book ‘Old History and New Geography – Bifurcating Andhra Pradesh’.
“The Delhi bosses of the government had information that ground situation in Hyderabad was grave and ‘something substantial’ had to be done to retrieve it,” he says in the book, going on to add that KCR’s health was one major factor influencing the decision-making.
On December 3, he was shifted to NIMS in Hyderabad, where the fast continued. Elsewhere in the region, the flames of Statehood stoked by Chandrashekhar Rao spread, and agitations, including those by Osmania University students, brought the State to a standstill.
This prompted the Congress-led Centre to ask Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah to convene an all-party meeting on December 8. The next day saw Chidambaram’s statement, thus bringing the fast to an end.
Chidambaram on the other hand agreed that the decision on Telangana was delayed and he was sorry for that.
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