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Don't contest bypoll, KCR told

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"Leaders are deserting party due to KCR's unilateral decisions"

HYDERABAD: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MLA, S. Bapu Rao, has asked his party president, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, to desist from contesting the Karimnagar Lok Sabha by-poll as the "wind was not in his favour."

In a letter to the president on Tuesday, the MLA said TRS leaders in Karimnagar district were working for Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao's defeat. The party chief's recent four-day tour had also come a cropper.

Mr. Bapu Rao said TRS leaders had been deserting the party at regular intervals due to the unilateral decisions of their leader and his effort to perpetuate family rule.

The results in the civic, cooperative and panchayat elections in the last two years were proof enough of people's disillusionment with the TRS, he said.

Seeking explanations

Tracing the political developments ever since the launch of the party in 2001, he asked Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao why he had met the owner of a Telugu daily, which he had been targeting all along, recently.

Mr. Bapu Rao also asked him to explain the logic behind the call for observing November 1 (State formation day) as a `black day.'

Moreover, the Congress had not closed its options on Telangana, he said warning him that a defeat in the bypoll would send more TRS leaders out of the party.

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