Hyderabad, October 11: Gadar’s Telangana People’s Front (TPF) has clearly rattled TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao. After announcing in Warangal that he might launch another fast unto death after December 31, he has gone into an overdrive.
His thrust, going by his own statements, is going to be on bringing a Dalit and minority dimension to the TRS to weather the storm being kicked up by Gadar. Since TPF focus is on giving primacy to Dalits, Chandrasekhar Rao appears to have decided to use the same card to fill the vacuum in his own party and pre-empt a possible Gadar impact.
To begin with, Chandrasekhar Rao came out with a slew of promises to the minorities: a Muslim will be deputy chief minister of a Telangana State; Muslims will get 12 pc quota in jobs and education and Sachar Committee recommendations will be implemented in toto. The promises, he hopes to fulfil, in a separate Telangana.
“I will implement all the recommendations of Sachar Committee,” Chandrasekhar Rao, donning a white cap, told the minority community members in Hyderabad on Sunday.
Rao has also been active behind the scenes, ever since Gadar floated his TPF. He has reportedly been holding secret parleys with his think tank and senior leaders on how to keep his flock together and induct more number of Dalits, minorities and government employees into the party. He is keen on fine tuning specific programmes towards this end at the party’s politburo meeting on Oct 13.
To get closer to Dalits, Rao wants to use Dr K Vijayarama Rao and Dr A Chandrasekhar.
As he had already announced that he would be building a “great movement” after December 31, the new effort will also be channelised in that direction.
Rao wants to tell the Dalits that if they wanted Telangana, they had better be with the TRS.
The TRS chief has already instructed party leaders to get in touch with Dalits in all parties.
Last but not the least, he is also making moves to mend fences with the Telangana Joint Action Committee with which he had been at odds of late on issues like nativity.
He has advised his partymen to take an active part in the panel’s programmes.
The TRS chief ’s daughter Kavitha, meanwhile, is busy with her efforts to keep the women folk in the party fold.
–Agencies