Telangana will be declared the 29th state of India at midnight on Sunday, after decades of struggle for separation from Andhra Pradesh.
Celebrations have been planned across the Hyderabad, with the city painted in pink, the colour of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) who have led the movement for a separate state. Fireworks are set to go off at midnight, when the President's rule is set to expire and after which a new government will be sworn in.
K. Chandrasekhara Rao is set to be appointed as the state's first Chief Minister expected to take up his post after paying respects at Gun Park at the Telangana Martyr's Memorial.
Celebrations have been planned across the Hyderabad, with the city painted in pink, the colour of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) who have led the movement for a separate state. Fireworks are set to go off at midnight, when the President's rule is set to expire and after which a new government will be sworn in.
K. Chandrasekhara Rao is set to be appointed as the state's first Chief Minister expected to take up his post after paying respects at Gun Park at the Telangana Martyr's Memorial.