TRS plans for a mega tie-up with Chiru

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,” said KCR 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.

“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. 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.