Andhra Pradesh (1956–2014)

Andhra Pradesh, retrospectively referred to as United Andhra Pradesh, Undivided Andhra Pradesh or Ummadi Andhra Pradesh, was a state in India formed by States Reorganisation Act, 1956 with Hyderabad as its capital and was reorganised by Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014. The state was made up of three distinct cultural regions of Telangana, Rayalaseema, and Coastal Andhra. Before the 1956 reorganisation Telangana had been part of Hyderabad State ruled by Nizam of Hyderabad, whereas Rayalaseema and Coastal Andhra had been part of Andhra State, formerly a part of Madras Presidency ruled by British India.

Andhra Pradesh
Um'maḍi Āndhrapradēś
ఉమ్మడి ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్
Former State of India
1956–2014
Coat of arms

Map of the United Andhra Pradesh
CapitalHyderabad
History
Government
  TypeFederated state
Chief Minister 
 1956-1960
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (First)
 2010-2014
Kiran Kumar Reddy (Last)
Governor 
 1956-1957
Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (First)
 2009-2014
E. S. L. Narasimhan (Last)
History 
 State established
1 November 1956
 State bifurcated
2 June 2014
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Andhra State
Hyderabad State (1948–1956)
Andhra Pradesh
Telangana
Andhra State (1953-1956)
Hyderabad State (1948–1956)

Creation of United Andhra Pradesh

Andhra State(yellow), which merged with Hyderabad state (white) to form the State of Andhra Pradesh in 1956
Map of Southern India (1953–1956) before the States Reorganisation Act of 1956

In an effort to gain an independent state based on linguistic identity, and to protect the interests of the Telugu people of Madras State, Potti Sreeramulu fasted to death in 1952. As Madras became a bone of contention, in 1949 a JVP committee report stated: "Andhra Province could be formed provided the Andhras give up their claim on the city of Madras (now Chennai)". After Potti Sreeramulu's death, the Telugu-speaking area of Andhra State was carved out of Madras State on 30 November 1953, with Kurnool as its capital city.[1] On the basis of the gentlemen's agreement of 1 November 1956, the States Reorganisation Act formed Andhra Pradesh by merging Andhra State with the Telugu-speaking areas of the already existing Hyderabad State.[2] Hyderabad was made the capital of the new state. The Marathi-speaking areas of Hyderabad State merged with Bombay State which later bifurcated in Gujarat and Maharashtra and the Kannada-speaking areas were merged with Mysore State which was later renamed as Karnataka.[3]

In February 2014, the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 bill was passed by the Parliament of India for the formation of the Telangana state comprising ten districts. Hyderabad will remain as a joint capital for not exceeding ten years.[4] The new state of Telangana came into existence on 2 June 2014 after approval from the President of India.[5] Number of petitions questioning the validity of Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 is long pending for the verdict since April 2014 before the supreme court constitutional bench.[6][7]

The Visalandhra, Vishalandhra or Vishala Andhra was a movement in post-independence India for a united state for all Telugu speakers, a Greater Andhra (Telugu: విశాలాంధ్ర Viśālāndhra). This movement was led by the Communist Party of India under the banner of Andhra Mahasabha with a demand to merge all the Telugu-speaking areas into one state. (The Communist Party of India demanded for the formation of similar linguistic states across India.) The movement succeeded and a separate state of Andhra Pradesh was formed by merging Telugu-speaking areas of Hyderabad State (Telangana) with Andhra State on 1 November 1956 as part of the States Reorganisation Act. (Andhra State had been previously carved out of Madras State on 1 October 1953.) However, on 2 June 2014, Telangana State was separated back out of Andhra Pradesh and the Vishalandhra experiment came to an end. The residual Andhra Pradesh now has approximately the same borders.

History

In an effort to gain an independent state based on linguistic identity and to protect the interests of the Telugu-speaking people of Madras State, Potti Sreeramulu fasted to death in 1952. As the city of Madras became a bone of contention, in 1949 a committee with Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, and Pattabhi Sitaramayya was constituted. The committee recommended that Andhra State could be formed provided the Andhras gave up their claim on the city of Madras (now Chennai). After Potti Sreeramulu's death, the Telugu-speaking area of Andhra State was carved out of Madras State on 1 October 1953, with Kurnool as its capital city. Tanguturi Prakasam became the first chief minister. On the basis of the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1956, the States Reorganisation Act created Andhra Pradesh by merging the neighbouring Telugu-speaking areas of the Hyderabad State with Hyderabad as the capital on 1 November 1956.[8]

The Indian National Congress (INC) ruled the state from 1956 to 1982. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy became the first chief minister. Among other chief ministers, P. V. Narasimha Rao is known for implementing land reforms and land ceiling acts and securing reservation for lower castes in politics.[9] Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, completed in 1967, and Srisailam Dam, completed in 1981, are some of the irrigation projects that helped increase the production of paddy in the state.[10]

In 1983, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) won the state elections, and N. T. Rama Rao became the chief minister of the state for the first time after launching his party just nine months earlier.[11] This broke the long-time single-party monopoly enjoyed by the INC. He transformed the sub-district administration by forming mandals in place of earlier taluks, removing hereditary village heads, and appointing non-hereditary village revenue assistants.[12] The 1989 elections ended the rule of Rao, with the INC returning to power with Marri Chenna Reddy at the helm. In 1994, Andhra Pradesh gave a mandate to the Telugu Desam Party again, and Rao became the chief minister again. Nara Chandrababu Naidu, Rao's son-in-law, came to power in 1995 with the backing of a majority of the MLAs. The Telugu Desam Party won both the assembly and Lok Sabha elections in 1999 under the leadership of Chandrababu Naidu. Thus, Naidu held the record for the longest-serving chief minister (1995–2004) of the united Andhra Pradesh.[13] He introduced e-governance by launching e-Seva centres in 2001 for paperless and speedy delivery of government services. He is credited with transforming Hyderabad into an IT hub by providing incentives for tech companies to set up centres.[14]

In 2004, Congress returned to power with a new chief ministerial face, YS Rajashekara Reddy, better known as YSR. The main emphasis during Reddy's tenure was on social welfare schemes such as free electricity for farmers, health insurance, tuition fee reimbursement for the poor, and the national rural employment guarantee scheme. He took over the free emergency ambulance service initiated by a corporation and ran it as a government project. INC won the 2009 elections under the leadership of YSR in April.[15] He was elected chief minister again but was killed in a helicopter crash that occurred in September 2009. He was succeeded by Congressmen Konijeti Rosaiah and Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy; the latter resigned over the impending division of the state to form Telangana.[16]

During its 58 years as a unified state, the state weathered separatist movements from Telangana (1969) and Andhra (1972) successfully.[17] A new party called Telangana Rashtra Samithi, formed in April 2001 by Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), reignited the Telanganga movement. A joint action committee formed with political parties, government employees, and the general public spearheaded the agitation. When KCR's health deteriorated due to his fast-unto-death programme, the central government decided to initiate the process to form an independent Telangana in December 2009. This triggered the Samaikyandhra movement to keep the state united. The Srikrishna committee was formed to give recommendations on how to deal with the situation. It gave its report in December 2010.[18] The agitations continued for nearly 5 years, with the Telangana side harping on the marginalisation of food culture, language, and unequal economic development and the Samaikyandhra movement focusing on the shared culture, language, customs, and historical unity of Telugu-speaking regions.[19] The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act bill was passed by the parliament of India for the formation of the Telangana state, comprising ten districts, despite opposition by the state legislature.[20] The bill included the provision to retain Hyderabad as the capital for up to ten years and the provision to ensure access to educational institutions for the same period.[21] The bill received the assent of the president and was published in the gazette on 1 March 2014.[22] The new state of Telangana came into existence on 2 June 2014 after approval from the president of India, with the residual state continuing as Andhra Pradesh.[23] The present form of Andhra Pradesh is the same as that of Andhra State, except for Bhadrachalam town, which continues in Telangana.[24] A number of petitions questioning the validity of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act have been pending before the Supreme Court constitutional bench since April 2014.[25]

In the final elections held in the unified state in 2014, the TDP got a mandate in its favour, defeating its nearest rival, the YSR Congress Party, a breakaway faction of the Congress founded by Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, son of former Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy. N. Chandrababu Naidu, the chief of the TDP, became the chief minister on 8 June 2014.[26] In 2017, the government of Andhra Pradesh began operating from its new greenfield capital, Amaravati, for which 33,000 acres were acquired from farmers through an innovative land pooling scheme.[27][28] Interstate issues with Telangana relating to the division of assets of public sector institutions and organisations of the united state and the division of river waters are not yet resolved.[29][30]


United Andhra Pradesh demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1961 35,983,000    
1971 43,503,000+20.9%
1981 53,550,000+23.1%
1991 66,508,000+24.2%
2001 75,727,000+13.9%
2011 84,665,533+11.8%
Includes Telangana.
Source: Census of India[31]

List of governors of United Andhra Pradesh

Data from Andhra Pradesh State Portal.[32]

# Name Portrait From To Term length
1 Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi 1 November 1956 1 August 1957 1,005 days
2 Bhim Sen Sachar 1 August 1957 8 September 1962 1,865 days
3 Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh 8 September 1962 4 May 1964 605 days
4 Pattom A. Thanu Pillai 4 May 1964 11 April 1968 1,439 days
5 Khandubhai Kasanji Desai   11 April 1968 25 January 1975 2,481 days
6 S. Obul Reddy   25 January 1975 10 January 1976 351 days
7 Mohanlal Sukhadia 10 January 1976 16 June 1976 159 days
8 Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare   16 June 1976 17 February 1977 247 days
9 B. J. Divan   17 February 1977 5 May 1977 78 days
10 Sharda Mukherjee   5 May 1977 15 August 1978 468 days
11 K. C. Abraham   15 August 1978 15 August 1983 1,827 days
12 Thakur Ram Lal 15 August 1983 29 August 1984 381 days
13 Shankar Dayal Sharma 29 August 1984 26 November 1985 455 days
14 Kumud Ben Joshi   26 November 1985 7 February 1990 1,535 days
15 Krishan Kant 7 February 1990 22 August 1997 2,754 days
16 Gopala Ramanujam   22 August 1997 24 November 1997 95 days
17 C. Rangarajan 24 November 1997 3 January 2003 1,867 days
18 Surjit Singh Barnala 3 January 2003 4 November 2004 672 days
19 Sushilkumar Shinde 4 November 2004 29 January 2006 452 days
20 Rameshwar Thakur 29 January 2006 22 August 2007 571 days
21 N. D. Tiwari 22 August 2007 27 December 2009 859 days
22 E. S. L. Narasimhan 28 December 2009[33] 1 June 2014 1,617 days

List of chief ministers of United Andhra Pradesh

On 1 November 1956, Hyderabad State ceased to exist; its Gulbarga and Aurangabad divisions were merged into Mysore State and Bombay State respectively. Its remaining Telugu-speaking portion, Telangana, was merged with Andhra State to form the new state of United Andhra Pradesh.

N. Chandrababu Naidu of Telugu Desam Party was the longest served chief minister of United Andhra Pradesh. Kiran Kumar Reddy of the Indian National Congress was the last chief minister of United Andhra Pradesh.

No. Portrait Name Constituency Term of office Assembly

(election)

Party
From To Days in office
1 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy Kalahasti 1 November 1956 11 January 1960 3 years, 71 days 1st

(1955 election)

Indian National Congress
2nd

(1957 election)

2 Damodaram Sanjivayya Kurnool 11 January 1960 12 March 1962 2 years, 60 days

(1)

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy Dhone 12 March 1962 20 February 1964 2 years, 8 days 3rd

(1962 election)

3 Kasu Brahmananda Reddy Narasaraopet 21 February 1964 30 September 1971 7 years, 221 days
4th

(1967 election)

4 P. V. Narasimha Rao Manthani 30 September 1971 10 January 1973 1 year, 102 days
5th

(1972 election)

Vacant
(President's rule)
N/A 11 Jan 1973 10 December 1973 333 days N/A
5 Jalagam Vengala Rao Vemsoor 10 December 1973 6 March 1978 4 years, 86 days Indian National Congress
6 Marri Chenna Reddy Medchal 6 March 1978 11 October 1980 2 years, 219 days 6th

(1978 election)

7 T. Anjaiah MLC 11 October 1980 24 February 1982 1 year, 136 days
8 Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy MLC 24 February 1982 20 September 1982 208 days
9 Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Kurnool 20 September 1982 9 January 1983 111 days
10 N. T. Rama Rao Tirupati 9 January 1983 16 August 1984 1 year, 220 days 7th

(1983 election)

Telugu Desam Party
11 N. Bhaskara Rao Vemuru 16 August 1984 16 September 1984 31 days
(10) N. T. Rama Rao Hindupuram 16 September 1984 9 March 1985 5 years, 77 days
9 March 1985 2 December 1989 8th

(1985 election)

(6) Marri Chenna Reddy Sanathnagar 3 December 1989 17 December 1990 1 year, 14 days 9th

(1989 election)

Indian National Congress
12 N. Janardhana Reddy Venkatagiri 17 December 1990 9 October 1992 1 year, 297 days
(9) Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Panyam 9 October 1992 12 December 1994 2 years, 64 days
(10) N. T. Rama Rao Hindupur 12 December 1994 1 September 1995 263 days 10th

(1994 election)

Telugu Desam Party
13 N. Chandrababu Naidu Kuppam 1 September 1995 11 October 1999 8 years, 255 days
11 October 1999 13 May 2004 11th

(1999 election)

14 Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy Pulivendla 14 May 2004 20 May 2009 5 years, 111 days 12th

(2004 election)

Indian National Congress
20 May 2009 2 September 2009 13th

(2009 election)

15 Konijeti Rosaiah MLC 3 September 2009 24 November 2010 1 year, 82 days
16 Kiran Kumar Reddy Pileru 25 November 2010 1 March 2014 3 years, 96 days
Vacant[lower-alpha 1]
(President's rule)
N/A 2 March 2014 1 June 2014 91 days N/A

List of deputy chief ministers of United Andhra Pradesh

The list of deputy chief ministers in the Indian former state of United Andhra Pradesh include:

Keys:   INC


Sr. No. Portrait Name Took office Left office Political party Chief Minister
1 Konda Venkata Ranga Reddy 1959 1962 Indian National Congress Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
2 J.V. Narsing Rao 1967 1972 Indian National Congress Kasu Brahmananda Reddy
3 C. Jagannatha Rao 24 February 1982 20 September 1982 Indian National Congress Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy
4 Koneru Ranga Rao 9 October 1992 12 December 1994 Indian National Congress Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy
5 Damodar Raja Narasimha 10 June 2011[35] 1 February 2014[36] Indian National Congress N. Kiran Kumar Reddy

Creation of Telangana

After several years of protest and agitation, the central government, under the United Progressive Alliance, decided to bifurcate the existing Andhra Pradesh state and on 2 June 2014, the Union Cabinet unilaterally cleared the bill for the creation of Telangana. Lasting for almost 5 decades, it was one of the most long lasting movements in South India.[1] On 18 February 2014, the Lok Sabha passed the bill with a voice vote. Subsequently, the bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha two days later, on 20 February.[2] As per the bill, Hyderabad would be the capital of Telangana, while the city would also remain the capital of residual state of Andhra Pradesh for no more than ten years. At present, Hyderabad is the de jure joint capital. On 2 June 2014, Telangana was created.

The Telangana movement refers to a movement for the creation of a state, Telangana, from the pre-existing state of Andhra Pradesh in India. The new state corresponds to the Telugu-speaking portions of the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad.

See also

Notes

  1. President's rule may be imposed when the "government in a state is not able to function as per the Constitution", which often happens because no party or coalition has a majority in the assembly. When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant, and the administration is taken over by the governor, who functions on behalf of the central government. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved.[34]

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