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Shatrugha, M., ‘NTR and The Naxalites’, Economic and Political Weekly, 15 July 1989.

All of this political machinery resulted in NTR swearing in as Andhra Pradesh’s first non-Congress chief minister.

Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel and Pattabi Sitharamayya formed the JVP committee, borrowing the first letter from each of their names. Under it, they came up with many creative solutions: splitting Madras into two parts along the Cooum River; distributing the city to the states; making it a joint capital; making Madras a centrally administered

In the 2009 elections, the party won only eighteen out of 294 Assembly seats and zero seats to the Parliament. Chiranjeevi lost his seat in his own hometown of Paalakollu. By the end of the journey, even the Kapus weren’t sure if he was the right person, causing a split in the vote bank. In 2011, Chiranjeevi merged Praja Rajyam Party with the Congr