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Last-ditch efforts to persuade TRS chief

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: The Congress leadership is making last-ditch efforts to persuade Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhar Rao to withdraw his resignation and abandon his plans to snap ties with the UPA.

Congress party sources said UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi had instructed State leaders to dissuade the TRS chief from leaving the alliance. This view was strengthened further following indications about a meeting between Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao and APCC president K. Keshava Rao on Tuesday, a day ahead of the emergency meeting of the APCC in the wake of an unseemly spat between Congress MPs over Telangana.

He said that nothing short of conceding the demand for bifurcating the State would make him withdraw his resignation and continue the ties with UPA.

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