Telangana Talli statues unveiled at 27 Collectorates; 16 years since official announcement on formation of Telangana State

This Tuesday (December 9, 2025) marks the 16th twelvemonth since the time an announcement was made by the Centre successful the twelvemonth of 2009 that the process of carving retired a separate Telangana would beryllium initiated. On the occasion, Telangana Talli statues astatine 27 territory Collectorates were virtually unveiled by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, on with his Cabinet colleagues.  

Last year, the Chief Minister said that December 9 each twelvemonth would beryllium celebrated arsenic ‘Telangana Talli Avatarana Dinotsavam’, which besides happens to beryllium the day of Sonia Gandhu. The statue astatine the Telangana State Secretariat was unveiled past twelvemonth connected this day.

Telangana Talli statue was designed aft a accepted agrarian pistillate farmer. The State’s accepted crops — maize, corn, foxtail millet — are successful the near hand, and the close manus gives assurance of prosperity. Adornments, including reddish bindi (dot decorating forehead), clay bangles, an anklet, and a chemoreceptor stud, are reflective of the civilization and traditions of the State. The State authorities designed the statue to animate aspirations of each sections of the society, arsenic per a property note. 

The statue is 12 feet high, and the pedestal is six feet, making a full of 18 feet from the ground. It is successful the works astatine Adilabad, Karimnagar, Warangal, Mulugu, Nalgonda and Narayanpet. 

Bharat Rashtra Samithi earlier announced it volition people the time arsenic ‘Deeksha Divas’, emphasising the 11-day hunger onslaught by the enactment president and erstwhile Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao. He called disconnected the onslaught aft former Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram announced that the process for enactment of a abstracted State volition beryllium initiated. 

Congress enactment planned to observe the day of the enactment person Sonia Gandhi, who was the chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), erstwhile the announcement was made. Programmes are planned astatine Gandhi Bhavan successful Nampally of Hyderabad.