In August 1947, the areas currently within the state of Andhra Pradesh were divided among the princely state of Hyderabad, the Madras Presidency and the Mysore state. Hyderabad State acceded to the Indian union at the completion of Operation Polo in September 1948. Potti Sriramulu worked towards unifying all the Telugu-speaking people, who were residing in the united madras presidency, into one state. Soon after his death due to an indefinite hunger strike in December 1952, the then Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru announcedthe state of Andhra would be formed which occurred on 1 October 1953 with Kurnool as capital. However, the princely state of Hyderabad which had been placed under the temporary governorship of the defeated Nizam from 1948 was reorganized as a separate state known as ” Hyderabad State ” in 1953 Burgula Ramakrishna Rao as Chief Minister. As per the recommendations of the States Reorganisation Commission in 1956, Andhra Pradesh became among the first states formed on a linguistic  basis on 1 November 1956 by uniting the telugu speaking parts of Hyderabad State,Mysore state and the Andhra State.