HYDERABAD: Nearly 10 months after the bifurcation of AP, the Telugu community in the US and North America, one of the most influential among the Indians there, is decided to separate.
The Telangana people going to launch of Telugu association of Telangana in the US in the first week of April.
The Telugu community is nearly 10 lakh-strong in the US and Canada, and post-bifurcation, the majority numbers appear to be loaded heavily in favour of Andhra Pradesh. “Of the 10 lakh Telugu population here, only about 1.5 lakh are from Telangana,” Anugu Srinivas Reddy, a professional from Washington DC and hailing from Telangana, told. Srinivas Reddy is the founder of Telangana American Telugu Association (TATA) whose formal launch is to take place at the Royal Albert Palace in New Jersey on April 5 at the hands of Nizamabad TRS MP K Kavitha.
After the Telugus landed in big numbers in the US, the Telugu Association of North America (TANA) was among the first major community organization floated by them in the year 1977. However, with people from coastal Andhra dominating the association, splinter groups emerged. If the earlier splits were based on caste dynamics, it is the regional divide that has given rise to TATA.