Hundreds of people began a hunger strike Sunday to protest against India’s decision to create a new state

HYDERABAD: Hundreds of people began a hunger strike Sunday to protest against India’s decision to create a new state out of the southern region of Andhra Pradesh, where violence has subsided in the region.

Thousands of protesters who took to the streets and set fire to public buses and clashed with police for three days after the federal government on Wednesday gave unexpectedly in the 11 days of hunger strike by senior politicians, K. Chandrasekhara Rao, who demanded the creation of a new Telangana State.

Rao and others complained of Telangana region in the north were underdeveloped, and ignoring some powerful politicians from the state of Andhra Pradesh. Demands for an independent state erupted sporadically since the 1950s.

The decision of the government in the face of protests. Twenty of the 34 state ministers and about 140 lawmakers resigned, demanding that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the government reverse its decision to bifurcate the state of Andhra Pradesh.

There were no new violence was reported Sunday, but a group of university students in the town of Vijaywada, and hundreds of women in the city of Cornwall, just outside the Telangana, he began a hunger strike.

‘We will put our lives for the sake of a united Andhra Pradesh, said Hem Lata, in the 45-year-old in Cornwall.

One of the factors driving the protests is a counter that under the government’s proposal to Hyderabad – the capital of the state and a base for a number of multinational corporations – would be located in the depth of Telangana. There was no formal decision yet on whether Hyderabad will be part of the new state, the old state, or to serve as venture capital.

The region about 250 miles south of the city of Hyderabad.

One opposition lawmaker, D. Umamaheshwar Rao went on hunger strike in Vijaywada – the path adopted by Rao for his claim accepted by the federal government.

About 400 students blocked a highway, shops, businesses and schools remained closed for a second day in a row in three major cities – Anantpur, Chittoor and Nellore.

The Federal Government’s decision has given hope to the ethnic minority groups in various parts of India, which paid for their own countries for decades, including in the remote northeast of the country, where long-escalation of separatist demands often turn into sectarian violence.

There are movements which calls for the dismantling of at least six other countries as well as the state of Andhra Pradesh.