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TRS to pull out of UPA on September 23

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KCR to meet Lok Sabha Speaker and President to complete formalities

HYDERABAD: Setting at rest speculation about mediatory efforts to make him reconsider his decision, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhar Rao has categorically stated that he will show up before Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on September 23 to authenticate his letter of resignation as member of Parliament.

He would also call on President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam the same day to hand over a letter withdrawing the party's support to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government.

Mr. Rao told mediapersons on Saturday that he would leave for New Delhi on September 22 and return here next evening after fulfilling the two tasks. If the President was unavailable in the capital that day, he would entrust the job of submitting the letter to him to a senior TRS leader.

The TRS chief revised his plans of meeting leaders of UPA constituents before calling on the President, and said he preferred to complete the formalities first. He did not even feel the necessity of meeting UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to convey the decision.

He said he would enter the fray for Karimnagar Lok Sabha by-poll as a candidate of the TRS. He would not seek the support of the BJP which had also plumped for separate Telangana. Mr. Rao discussed plans to strengthen the organisational network of the TRS following the party's rally at Warangal on September 25. Public meetings would be held in all the districts after that. A 500-strong force of "brigadiers" would be raised in as many mandals of Telangana to propagate the cause. They would organise hoisting of party flag and ringing of bells, a la All-Assam Students Union strategy in the past, in villages everyday from 6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.

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