Hyderabad: After years of hunger strikes, sit-ins, and even suicides by activists, India's ruling Congress party has endorsed the creation of Telangana as the 29th state of India by dividing the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The Congress Working Committee, the highest body of India's governing party, passed a resolution Tuesday evening after its allies in the United Progressive Alliance coalition backed the formation of the new state.

"Hyderabad will be the common capital for 10 years," said Digvijaya Singh, a senior Congress Party leader, who was party of the crucial meeting, told the press in New Delhi. He described an elaborate procedure that has to be followed before the new state can come into existence. After consultations at the state level, the Indian Parliament has to pass a bill for the creation of the state with a simple majority vote.

Telangana would be carved out of 10 northwestern districts of Andhra Pradesh and would comprise an area of around 60,000 square miles. A separate state of Seemandhra, which would encompass the eastern coastal and southern districts of Andhra Pradesh, would also simultaneously come into being.

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