Andhra Pradesh (1956–2014)

This article is about a former state. For the present-day state, see Andhra Pradesh.

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 Āndhrapradēś ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్
Former State of India
1956–2014
Coat of arms
Map of the United Andhra Pradesh
Capital	Hyderabad
History
Government
• Type	Federated 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.^{[citation needed]} (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

See also: Andhra State, Visalandhra movement, and Andhra Pradesh (1956–2014)

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  Potti Sreeramulu, whose fast unto death in 1952 led to the formation of Andhra State
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  Nagarjuna Sagar Dam (completed in 1967)
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  NT Rama Rao, a film actor, who became chief minister of Andhra Pradesh in 1983
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  Mee Seva office (initial launch of the E-Seva Project in 2001)

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

Year	Pop.	±%
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]

See also: Visalandhra movement

List of governors of United Andhra Pradesh

Data from Andhra Pradesh State Portal.^[32]

• Main article List of governors of Andhra Pradesh

#	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^[a] (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.

• Telangana movement

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

• Visalandhra Movement
• Jai Andhra movement
• Telangana movement
• Samaikyandhra Movement

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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