Top leaders of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) will meet here on Monday to take a call on whether the party should merge with Congress or forge an alliance with the latter.
According to reports, today’s meeting will be attended by TRS politburo, lawmakers and state executive.
The meeting was earlier scheduled to be held on March 1, however, it was postponed for today. During today’s meet, the TRS leaders will discuss the post-bifurcation scenario in Telangana region.
Ahead of the meeting, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh had claimed that TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao had given positive indications about merger.
TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao, or KCR, had recently announced that he would be willing to merge his party with Congress if the latter accepted the separate Telangana demand.
But last week, when the Congress welcomed two of its expelled leaders – Vijayashanti and Arvind Reddy – into its fold, the TRS took very serious view of the move.
“It is certainly in bad taste with the Congress party, while talking to us about a merger or an alliance, at the same time they go about poaching our sitting MLA Arvind Reddy. This is something the Congress leadership needs to understand, that if you want to be friends with TRS, you cannot be picking up people from TRS and expect us to be friends also,” KCR’s son KT Rama Rao said last weeek.
With this move, political observers said the TRS may have got the exit opportunity it was looking for. TRS leaders told a private TV news channel that they were under no obligation to either merge the TRS with the Congress or have a pre-poll alliance.