Hyderabad, June 19: TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday quit his post saying he was sad over personal attacks made against him by rebel leaders in the wake of the party’s electoral defeat.
In a three-page letter addressed to the party’s state executive committee, Rao said he was sad over the personal attack mounted against him and his family members by the rebel leaders, who, have “joined hands with those trying to defeat the Telangana movement”.
Claiming that since its formation in 2001, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi had succeeded in taking the movement for a separate Telangana state to national and international level, he said that the rebel leaders have used the outcome of recent elections to malign him.
“President of India talked about the Telangana issue in her address to the Parliament. We got letters of support for the Telangana demand from various political parties,” he said.
Rao said that the concoctions by the leaders have made him sad and he thought it prudent to step down to safeguard the separate statehood movement.
The state executive will meet soon and take a decision on Rao’s resignation, senior leader K Madhusudhan Achary, who released the resignation letter to the media, said.
–PTI