TRS chief suffers double whammy

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti(TRS) supremo K Chandrasekhara Rao on Thursday suffered a double whammy as the rebels of his party launched a new forum Telangana Vimochana Samiti (TVS) to start a new movement for separate State and on the other a close aide of KCR revolted against him calling him a “big fraud”.

TRS MLC K Dilip Kumar, the brain behind the launch of the new forum, addressing a gathering of intellectuals, academicians and activists said that the TVS was not a political party. "It is a non political movement launched to struggle for achieving Telangana State.

It had become necessary because the existing parties had failed to achieve the goal," he said taking a dig at the TRS and its president K Chandrasekhara Rao.

"It is not possible for TRS alone to realise the dream for Telangana. It can be achieved only by working along with all other parties at the national level," he said.

"TRS and KCR are not in a position to achieve Telangana now. The policies pursued by him will never achieve Telangana," said Dilip Kumar, who had emerged the most stringent critic of KCR's leadership ever since the TRS suffered huge defeat in the recent elections.

Meanwhile the TRS rebels received a new short in arm as KCR's close aide Habeeb Abdul Rahman also joined their ranks. Rahman, TRS general secretary and former MLC, said that the TRS had become a one-man show and a property of a single individual.

He alleged that KCR had sold the TRS tickets for crores of rupees to the individuals who had never worked for the party in the past.

"If KCR works only for the sake of the benefit of himself and his party, how can he achieve Telangana," Rahman asked. Rahman said that many leaders and workers of the TRS were demanding KCR to quit as the party president. "He held the TRS executive committee meeting with the help of 200 rowdies and these rowdies even attacked former MP Ravindra Naik," he said.

Rahman has revolted at a time when the party is already in the grip of a big turmoil. The party suspended five top party office-bearers for demanding the resignation of KCR as party president.
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