Hyderabad, December 07: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah tonight met Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President K Chandrasekhara Rao (KCR) at the Intensive Care Unit of Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) in an attempt to diffuse the volatile situation as the fast entered in the eight day.
Accompanying Mr Rosaiah in the late night visit was Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) President Ajith Singh who is reportedly close to TRS President.
Chief Minister and Mr Singh went into the NIMS through the rear gate as TRS activists were holding night vigil near the front gate of NIMS. They were there for more than 15 minutes and Mr Rosaiah had reportedly sought the help of KCR’s family members including his son K T Rama Rao, MLA and his nephew Harish Rao who were present there to help in changing Mr Rao’s decision to continue the fast ”until a bill for separate Telangana is moved in the Parliament”.
TRS activists who got a scent of Chief Minister’s visit rushed to the rear gate of the hospital shouting slogan against the CM but the police got them away till Mr Rasaiah’s convoy along with Mr Singh and Marri Sashidhar Reddy, MLA and son of former Chief Minister M Chenna Reddy who had spearheaded in 1969 separatist movement, had left the NIMS venue.
Earlier in the night AICC Secretary K Kesava Rao, MP, air dashed from New Delhi
and called on KCR. Hours before, APCC President D Srinivas too called on KCR. In a day of hectic political activity initiated by the government and the Congress party to bring down the temperature arising out of KCR’s fast and entry of students from the universities in Telangana for the first time in nine years since TRS was formed.
The student of the universities in Telangana under the joint action committee have already threatened to go on a ”challo assembly” march on December 10 which could be critical to the ongoing agitation.
——Agencies