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Congress will be wiped out in Telangana: KCR

HYDERABAD: Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K. Chandrasekhara Rao has said that the Congress will be wiped out of Telangana where it will not even win a single seat in the 2009 Assembly elections.

“Congress is all set to meet the fate of TDP in the next elections because it has gone back on its promise,” Mr. Chandrasekhara Rao said at a meeting of party workers from Narayankhed, Huzurabad and Sirpur Assembly constituencies here on Tuesday. “I had predicted that the TDP will not cross the double digit mark in the 2004 elections because of its stand on the Statehood,” he remarked.

The TRS chief admitted that due to compulsions, his party had to forge an alliance with the Congress in the last elections. The TDP which had opposed separate Telangana was now forced to chant “Jai Telangana”.

Free education

“After the next elections, Telangana will be a reality and we have to plan out our strategies to develop it,” Mr. Chandrasekhara Rao said.

He promised free education to all the children in the new State.

He pointed out that when the TRS comes to power in the new State, he would seek the help of the Army to conduct door-to-door survey on the status of the people in the region.

“We will declare three months holiday for the government offices and ensure that the survey is completed so that we can go ahead with proper planning,” he added.

He also disputed the claims of Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy that lot of development had taken place in the region in the last four years.

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