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Political compulsion only alternative: TRS

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KCR back from Delhi after resignation

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Return of the native: TRS president K. Chandrashekhar Rao being mobbed by his party followers at the Begumpet airport on Thursday. -

HYDERABAD: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K. Chandrashekhar Rao has said that the only alternative left with the TRS to press its demand for separate Telangana was to create a political compulsion for other parties to take its help to come to power when the Lok Sabha and Assembly were reconstituted next.

Speaking to reporters on Thursday evening, Mr. Rao said the recent resignation by TRS members from Lok Sabha and Assembly placed the separate Telangana movement on a pedestal. . It was conceded by no less a person than Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee who went to the extent of regretting that Congress went back on the promise of creating separate State, Mr. Rao said.

The TRS chief added that the party would chalk out its future course at the executive meeting here on Saturday. He welcomed the statement issued by senior Telugu Desam leader Kadiam Srihari in support of separate Telangana and hoped many more leaders from other parties follow suit.

Earlier, slogan-shouting by supporters rent the air when Mr. Rao arrived at the Begumpet airport fresh from his resignation at New Delhi. The crowd displayed banners and flags. Naini Narasimha Reddy and T. Padma Rao, both MLAs, and K. Dilip Kumar, MLC, danced to the tune of music.

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