Telangana Praja Front (TPF) was a regional political movement in the southern

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

n state of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

. It was formed as a

Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian subcontinent, Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India b ...

separatist organisation, demanding statehood for the Telangana region that was then a part of Andhra Pradesh. TPF was launched on 9 October 2010 with

Gaddar Gummadi Vittal Rao (born 1949), popularly known as Gaddar, is an Indian poet, revolutionary balladeer, activist and a former naxalite. Gaddar was active in the Naxalite movement till 2010, and later joined the movement for Telangana's stat ...

as president. He was specific in saying that it was not a political party but rather intended to be an umbrella body for uniting various action committees that had become somewhat moribund in the preceding months. He did not, however, rule out the possibility of contesting elections at some future time, although some TPF supporters, who were mostly students, said that they would withdraw if it did in fact become a party. The aim at foundation was to get a bill for a separate Telangana state introduced into parliament. Gaddar said that the creation of the new state could only happen through "people's movements and agitations". Gaddar resigned as president in May 2012, still insisting that a separate state could not be achieved through electoral means. He was replaced by Akula Bhoomaiah, who subsequently died in what has been alleged to be a political murder.

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