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KCR dares Congress MPs, MLAs to resign

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Telangana Rashtra Samithi holds massive public meeting at Siddipet

SIDDIPET: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday dared Congress MPs and MLAs from Telangana to resign and seek re-election and offered that his party's elected representatives would follow suit.

This, he said, would lead to the Rajasekhara Reddy Government landing in a crisis, considering that the Congress had 48 MLAs and the TRS 26 in the region. Consequently, this would force UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to concede the demand for separate Telangana.

Mr. Rao was addressing a massive public meeting billed as `Telangana Samarasankharavam,' the first after he and A. Narendra quit the Union Cabinet. The 45-acre cotton market yard ground was filled to the brim with thousands of TRS activists and sympathisers who came from different parts of the region. The enthusiastic crowd kept on prompting Mr. Rao who complimented them by saying that they had been the source of his strength in the last five years.

He appealed to people to confront Congress MLAs and Ministers to demand for separate Telangana. He predicted that the Congress leaders would not retain their deposits in next elections and accused them of indulging in corruption and ignoring the development of the region.

Repeat of 1970 alleged

The TRS president said the Congress was trying to repeat the 1970 experience of getting the separate Telangana movement to collapse by merging the TPS in the party. Mr. Rao said he based his observation from AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh's offer of more Ministerial berths to the TRS. However, he had rejected the offer.

Amidst lusty cheers from the crowd, he moved a resolution urging the Assembly and Parliament to give consent to the demand for separate Telangana. Otherwise, the movement by the TRS would be carried to its logical end, he thundered.

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