Khammam district - Palvancha at thermal power in 1969 January 5, telangana agitation has taken a birth. With the resources like COAL,Water of Telangana, power station has built but employees/working staff were from Andra region. Thier main objective was to send Andhras to back thier region. That time, we had Telangana Regional Committe that is headed by Chokka Rao, they submitted memorandom to him against non-localite working staff in thermal station.
Like this first time Telangana agitation started to protect the safegaurd of telangana region agreed in Gentlemen Agreement. On January 9th 1969, Ravindranath B.A graduate student has began hunger strike and other people joined him like Sri Kaviraja murthy. They started giving slogans against Andhra Leaders, attacking organization which are having Name "Andhra".
. A new non-political organization named "Telangana Rakshana Samithi" - the committe which work on protecting safe guard of Telangana agreed in Gentlement agreement. As part of this committe they ordered following demands:
- Demanding the Govt to spend 100 crores for Telangana Development.
- Asking to provide more importance to Pochampaadu project.
- Asking to give more importance for Telangana Industrial Development
- Demanding to send the non-mulki employees back to thier region, filling the same posts with Telangana region people.
On 10th January 1969, the agitation propagated to Nizamabad district. Under supervision of A.S. Poshetti - Students Organization president, called for boycott the schools,colleges and began start the procession in city of Nizamabad. The slogans they gave was "Non-Mulki GoBack" and submitted memorandom to Collector and S.P.
On 12th January 1969, the agitation moved to critical shape in Khammam, they burnt the news papers for not covering the correct news, rail rokos of the train which are commuting toward Vijayawada. Some people started sitting on Hunger strike.
On the same day, in Osmania University, student organizations formed a group, discussed on the topic of voilation of gentlemen agreement. They came to action plan to start the movement from January 15th. Demanded to give the resignations of Cabinet ministers, central ministership, asking to show 70 crores telangana surplus funds. Demanding to send non-localites employees back to thier regions.
