Hyderabad: K Chandrasekhar Rao had rejected to merge with Congress for the upcoming national elections which are due on May of this year.
K Chandrasekhar Rao is the man who fronted the campaign for a new southern state of Telangana.
Notify that Rao heads the Telangana Rashtra Samithi or TRS. His party will decide soon on a possible alliance with the Congress.
In 2009, it was Rao’s 11-day fast that resuscitated a movement that for decades asked the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and the carving out of the Telangana region as its own state.
The Congress recently managed to push through the law that makes Telangana the country’s 29th state seeking to profit in the national election.
Sources say that the party, which privately considers Rao an unreliable ally, wanted to confirm a merger immediately.
Senior union minister Jairam Ramesh conceded that the reorganization of Andhra Pradesh will not take place before the election last week.
TRS believes that deprives him of electoral dividends for a cause he has brought to fruition.
Rao is also reportedly upset with the fact that two prominent rebels from his party were accepted last week by the Congress as members. Senior leaders close to him say that the TRS will benefit from maintaining its own identity in the election, and that they prefer to examine options for alliances after results are known.
Bureau Report
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