Hyderabad, December 26: Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao declared here today that he would wind up the TRS if the UPA chairperson initiated the process of creating a separate Telangana state.
“I am ready to barkhas the TRS if Sonia announces Telangana state,” he said while responding to Congress MP Sarve Satyanarayana’s suggestion that KCR should work under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi once the Telangana state was formed.
Chandrasekhar Rao and Satyanarayana were speakers at a function organised to release the TNGOs Diary.
Reiterating that the Congress should pilot a bill in the forthcoming budget session of Parliament on statehood for Telangana, Rao wanted the Congress MPs and legislators to exert pressure on their central leadership for introduction of the bill. He also wanted the Congress MLAS to boycott the budget session of the Assembly.
“If Sonia Gandhi takes the initiative for formation of Telangana state, she will be worshipped in Telangana. My only apprehension is why the Centre is deploying additional security forces in the region. I don’t want the 1969 situation to be repeated. Srikrishna Committee report or no report, we will get Telangana state. If need be, I will undertake a fast-unto-death once again. I will fight with the political battalions,” Rao said.
–Agencies