TRS sends strong message to Oppn

By Our Special Correspondent

TRS chief and Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao seems to want to send a strong and clear message to his son, party working president Katie Rama Rao that he is ready to work with the anti-Congress and anti-BJP forces. Opposition-backed presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha will travel to New Delhi on Monday to attend the nomination process.

While senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was there, the TRS wanted to give the impression that it was not shrugging its shoulders with the old party and disagreeing with it on various issues at the state and national level.

Since Sinha had to sit with Rahul Gandhi when he filed his papers, Rama Rao said that his party was later supporting Sinha to dispel the notion that the TRS was close to the Congress. Any support for Sinha's candidature has nothing to do with the TRS. Rama Rao made it clear to the Congress.

Rama Rao clarified that no opposition alliance had been formed and that the TRS was not part of it. Who told you that we are in a coalition of opposition parties? When Sinha signed the nomination papers along with some other parties it should not be termed as an alliance.

Do not decide on your own and name the alliance, he retorted when a reporter asked him if there was an alliance of opposition parties including the Congress.

The TRS Working President made it clear that they were supporting the joint candidate of the Opposition to oppose the BJP dictatorship. Rama Rao explained that the TRS candidate was not fielded in the presidential election and that the people would field the TRS candidate as the Rose Party favored the BJP.

The TRS supported Sinha's candidacy to thwart such speculations. Rama Rao said that TRS stands by Sinha. TRS president and CM K Chandrasekhar Rao decided to support Yashwant Sinha's candidature after West Bengal Minister Mamata Banerjee phoned NCP leader Sharad Pawar Rao and asked him to support Sinha.