Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao thinks that a TRS-Chiranjeevi tie-up will be a deadly combine with the potential to sweep the next general elections in Andhra Pradesh.

"We are in touch with the Chiranjeevi camp. But I am yet to be personally in contact with Chiranjeevi," KCR told The Times Of India when asked whether there were efforts to form an alliance. "Our combination will bring both the Congress and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to their knees", KCR claimed. The Telangana warlord believes that there is no way the creation of Telangana can be stopped. "It will happen after the next general elections," he said. Queried on how he could be sure about this as even the last time around the TRS had won on the promise of a separate state, KCR said his party would make a clean sweep of the region and with 17 seats, nobody in Delhi would oppose the demand for Telangana.

His allegation: the Congress party had virtually backstabbed them by reneging on the issue of creation of a separate state. "The sentiment for a separate state is very strong in the region and this has to be respected. We have our separate culture, our food is different and so are our festivals. We must have two different states," KCR said. But how far will the people of Telangana go in this direction? Will they resort to agitations, court arrest and go to jail? KCR said the need for these steps does not arise, because now the issue of Telangana has boiled down to a political question.

"Was Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh created as a result of agitation? It was just a political decision taken by the powers in New Delhi. The same has to be the case with Telangana," KCR said.

The TRS leader thinks that because of its anti-Telangana stance, the Congress party will be decimated in the region and similar would be the fate of TDP because of its ambivalent stance. KCR is ready to write off the two parties in the other regions of the state because of the Chiranjeevi wave that will soon sweep over these parts. "Even in small hamlets and villages there is very strong support for him. This will shake both TDP and Congress down to their roots," KCR suggested. In Telangana, KCR’s strategy to mobilise public support would be through mega public meetings in large towns. "From experience we know that this is a better way to mobilise support than through grassroots meetings at each village," the TRS boss said.

At the national level KCR feels that post general elections, the BJP will emerge as the single largest party and that the Congress haul will be below 100. Though he does not say so, his hopes of Telangana are also buoyed by his personal belief that a BJP combine will lead the government in Delhi after the next polls.