Author: India Writes Network

Gopinath Munde rose from the fringes of society to the peak of success. A promising leader who led the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra during difficult times, and wielded a profound influence on the masses, has passed away at a time when the party, who he served for years, sought him the most ahead of the state assembly elections.

Amid frenzied jubilation and merry-making, India’s 29th state, Telangana, was formally born June 2, marking a culmination of over five decades of sustained struggle for statehood. K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), whose party Telangana Rashtra Samithi spearheaded the decades-long campaign for a separate state to be carved from Andhra Pradesh, was sworn in as the chief minister of Telangana. A jubilant Rao, popularly known as KCR, vowed to make Telangana “a role model for other states in India.”