| Party to organise victory rally at Nalgonda on December 22 |
TRIUMPHANT RETURN: Party workers give a warm welcome to TRS president K. Chandrashekhar Rao in Hyderabad on Friday. — PHOTO: SATISH. H.
HYDERABAD: After the decisive victory in the Karimnagar parliamentary byelection, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) is focusing its attention on making similar waves in the rest of Telangana.
As a first step, the TRS would organise its victory rally at Nalgonda on December 22. The town was chosen as the venue as it was part of south Telangana while Karimnagar formed the northern contours of the region, TRS president K. Chandrashekhar Rao told reporters here on Friday.
Action plan
Mr. Rao said the TRS has drawn up an action plan to replicate the success at Karimnagar in other parts of the region. Simultaneously, it will launch a full-fledged movement for separate Telangana by taking up districtwise `Palle baata' programmes. The TRS activists would demand the resignation of Congress leaders from their posts as the election results had shown that the latter returned to power aided by the alliance between the two parties in 2004.
`Introduce Bill'
The TRS chief warned that the party would elbow out its rivals in Telangana while expanding its network. It aims at winning all the Parliament and Assembly seats in the region in the next elections.
Emphasising that the verdict in elections was final in any political system, Mr. Rao asked the Congress high command to see sense and introduce a Bill on statehood for Telangana in Parliament immediately. It was not good to test the patience of people any further. They had at regular intervals indicated their preference through the ballot but the Congress ignored the same.
Drawing inspiration from the result, he asked leaders of all hues in Telangana to unite over a common cause. He wanted Telugu Desam leaders to quit the party if they failed to convince the party leadership to change its stand on separate Telangana.
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