Adnan Abidi / Reuters
Pro-Telangana and India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters are hit by a police water cannon as they try to climb over a barricade during a protest in New Delhi on September 4, 2012.
Protesters demanding a separate Telangana state carved out of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh took to the streets of New Delhi on Tuesday.
Proponents of the new state have complained their area in the north has been left underdeveloped and ignored by powerful politicians from southern Andhra Pradesh, The Associated Press reports. Demands for a separate state have erupted sporadically since the 1950s.
Krishnendu Halder / Reuters
Supporters demanding a separate Telangana state carved out of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh unleash buffaloes on police barricades during a protest in Hyderabad on Thursday, July 7. The government's indecision over whether to create a new state of Telangana risks causing more unrest if other regions demand autonomy, and has further exposed the ruling Congress party as divided and rudderless.
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