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TRS hints at truck with Congress

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KCR’s somersault hoping Congress will concede Telangana

HYDERABAD: Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday expressed his willingness to forge an alliance with the Congress in the next elections after it conceded the demand for separate Telangana.

In an informal chat with reporters here, Mr. Rao said he had inputs from New Delhi that the Congress high command had indeed decided to grant statehood to Telangana and he would get an invitation from it in five to six days for further consultations on how to go ahead. “The TRS was morally bound to go with Congress in the polls in that event,” he remarked.

He felt there was nothing wrong for TRS to enter into an alliance with Congress if the latter was sincere to the cause. “Why should we have an objection?”

Mr. Rao said the Congress high command had realised that the party could not risk going to polls in the State alone. It was credited with the view that TRS was the only party with which it could have a friendly relationship. The Congress could not think of alliances with the Telugu Desam, BJP and the Praja Rajyam while the Left had deserted it in the wake of Indo-US civil nuclear deal. In this background, the Congress decided to concede Telangana to ensure that the TRS remained with it.

The TRS president asked why Congress leadership would like to purchase problems after assessing that all other parties had raised separate Telangana bogey. The Congress had also not underestimated the Telangana sentiment since the TRS secured seven per cent more votes than it. Asserting that it was inevitable for the Congress to plump for separate Telangana at this stage, he expected a clear picture to emerge in the next ten days.

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