Large number of people participated in different ways. Across this chapter we have given a series of images that represent these events, from the years after 2000. Sakalajanula Samme shows participation of teachers, farmers and women marking their demand Lambadas, Yeruskalas and the Madigas formed theirown JACs and joined the movement.In many Mandal headquaters, a relay fast was organised in which one particular caste group gathered with all its professions or castes. People from modern professions like teachers, industrial workers, mining workers, trade unions and women's organizations held similar protests.
●Give examples of how people from movement. In many Mandal headquarters, different walks of life joined the movement.

● Why do you think it was important for traditional implements and practice their all of them to come out into the open in craft in the public places. Such protests support of the movement for separate were not confined to traditional state?


K. Chandrashekhar Rao's Fast- 2009
To give a decisive expression to this momentum, K. Chandrashekhar Rao, the leader of Telangana Rashtra Samiti, announced an indefinite fast to begin on 29 November 2009 at Siddipet He was arrested and lodged in a jail even before he started his fast. He started the fast in Khammam Jail and subsequently continued it in hospital too. The students of Osmania University formed a Telangana Students Joint Action Committee on 16 November to express solidarity with him. The spree of people forming Joint Action Committees (JACS) spread to Kakatiya University, and then to Palamur, Satavahana, and Mahatma Gandhi Universities of Telangana. Then the Employees JAC, Lawyers JAC JACs of caste or communities and the District level JACs sprang up SS

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader, K. Chandrashekhar Rao's fast became a massive people's movement. He was fasting for about ten days between 29 November



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