Question

Describe the different roles taken up by JACs and political parties in the formation of Telangana state? How do you think JACs created platform across political ideologies?

Answer 1

Different roles taken up by JACs and political parties in the formation of Telangana state were as follows:
i) A Joint Action Committee JAC was formed which led to setting up of hundreds of such parties in Telangana.
ii) A Telangana Information Trust was set up in 1989 to get information on injustices done to Telangana. On November 1, 1996, Telangana Vidroham meeting was organized in Warangal by a group of intellectuals.
iii) Telangana Jana Sabha (1997) and Telangana Mahasabha (1997) facilitated the merger of the movements of the weaker sections with the movement for the state.
iv) Telangana employees including teachers, Non-Gazetted and Gazetted Officers formed their organizations.
v) Joint Action Committees (JACs) spread to Kakatiya University, and then to Palamur, Satavahana, and Mahatma Gandhi Universities of Telangana.
vi) The employee's students, writers, and cultural activist began holding seminars lectures and meetings.
vii) Employees JACs, Lawyers JACs, JACs of caste or communities and the District level JACs were also set up.
viii) The Congress Core Committee heard the presentations from the Andhra side and Telangana side and finally took a decision in favor of bifurcation.