New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on late Wednesday night announced that the process of forming the state of Telangana will be initiated.
"Resolution will be moved in the state assembly," he said.
Chidambaram said the Centre has requested the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah to withdraw cases against leaders, students and those associated with the separate Telangana agitation.
Rosaiah has informed the Centre that he will take necessary steps.
TRS President K Chandrasekhar Rao broke his fast following the Centre's assurance.
"We are concerned about the health of K Chandrasekhar Rao. We also appeal to all students to withdraw their agitation to help restore normalcy," Chidambaram said.
Minutes after the Centre’s statement, TRS leader Vinod Kumar told CNN-IBN, “We feel that what happened is good. Rao should withdraw his fast. Now Government has to see that a Bill is passed in Parliament. There will be no problem in the state Assembly in passing a resolution.”
The Core Group of the Congress had met in the Capital on Wednesday evening for a second time in the day to discuss the separate Telangana demand of TRS.
The Telangana region has been on the boil as TRS chief's condition had turned critical on Wednesday, the 11th day of his fast unto death, and Hyderabad was turned into a fortress by police fearing large-scale violence during the march to Assembly planned by TRS and students on Thursday.
KCR ends 11-day fast
TRS president K Chandrasekhara Rao called off his 11-day fast at a hospital in Hyderabad in the wee hours of Thursday soon after the Central Government announced that the process of forming a separate state of Telangana will be initiated.
KCR, as Rao is popularly known, was offered lemon juice by TRS ideologue Jayashankar in the intensive care unit of Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS).
Soon after Union Home Minister P Chidambaram made an announcement in Delhi that a resolution would be moved in the state Assembly, the TRS leaders met KCR and conveyed the same to him.
KCR, whose condition had worsened since Tuesday, broke the fast after brief consultation with Jayashankar.
Talking to reporters in the intensive care unit of NIMS, KCR broke down while paying tributes to those who laid down their lives for the formation of Telangana.
Outside NIMS, hundreds of TRS activists, students and Telangana sympathisers celebrated the victory by bursting crackers and distributing sweets.
Students of Osmania University, the nerve centre of the agitation, Kakatiya University in Warangal and other groups fighting for separate state were jubilant.
Hundreds of students at Osmania University were seen dancing and raising slogans of "Jai Telangana" soon after Chidambaram announced in Delhi that a resolution would be moved in the state Assembly.
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