The 2012 Telangana protests refers to a chain of protests as part of the Telangana movement, taking place in 2012. The year mainly dealt with two assembly bypolls, one in March and the other in June, with the BJP winning one, and the YSR Congress winning the other. Protests resumed in August when KCR gave a deadline to the centre to declare statehood in 2 weeks. On 19 January 2012, BJP led by State party president Kishan Reddy started the 22-day Telangana 'Poru Yatra', a journey of 3500 km in Telangana, to touch 986 villages and 88 assembly constituencies stressing the need for Telangana stance. Though the tour was successful in reiterating the party's pro-Telangana stance, it could not garner as much support as hoped because of the indifferent attitude of the TRS and TJAC. In fact the fai