Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Wednesday.
This is Mr. Rao’s first meeting with Mr. Modi after the former won the Assembly election to return to power in Telangana. And the meeting comes at a time when Mr. Rao is trying to build a non-BJP, non-Congress “federal front” and has started second round of meetings with Opposition leaders. Last week he had a meeting with Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee .
According to sources close to him, the meeting was largely restricted to the issues related to the State. Mr. Rao had gone with 16 items on his agenda, including release of funds for 10 backward districts, setting up of a separate High Court for Telangana, Kendriya Vidyalayas in new districts and an Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Karimnagar district.
To meet BSP chief
The TRS chief, who is in Delhi since Monday night, also plans to meet Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati. Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav has said that he will visit Hyderabad to meet Mr. Rao.
Mr. Yadav said he would meet Mr. Rao after January 6 in Hyderabad as he could not be in Delhi on December 25 and 26 as planned earlier.
