TRS ends suspense, joins TDP-led alliance
1 Feb 2009, 0436 hrs IST, TNN
HYDERABAD: Battlelines for the 2009 general and assembly elections in the state were finally drawn on Saturday after Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao announced that his party has joined the grand alliance forged by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Left parties.
After much dithering and wrangling over seats, KCR made the announcement in the presence of TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu at the latter’s residence on Saturday evening and claimed that the combine will easily secure 200 assembly seats. But on the issue of the number of seats being shared, both Naidu and KCR refused to divulge saying they want to delay making it public as a strategic move.
But TDP and TRS sources said both sides had agreed on 10 Lok Sabha seats and 45 assembly seats for the TRS. The announcement of TRS joining the TDP-Left combine was made after hectic consultations between the two leaders at Naidu’s residence at which the TRS chief’s son and other party leaders were also present.
“Our aim is to defeat the Congress and work for separate Telangana and that is what made us go with the grand alliance,” KCR said. He also denied that the announcement was delayed on account of non-agreement over seat-sharing. “Seat-sharing was not the issue at all as was speculated in the media. Some give-and-take attitude will always be there to achieve an objective and here, our aim is to defeat the Congress party,” he said. With this, three major forces have emerged ahead of the elections. While the Congress is going it alone save the help of MIM in Hyderabad, Prajarajyam and T Devender Goud are likely to form a front while the third one would be that of the TDP-TRS-Left.
1 Feb 2009, 0436 hrs IST, TNN
HYDERABAD: Battlelines for the 2009 general and assembly elections in the state were finally drawn on Saturday after Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao announced that his party has joined the grand alliance forged by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Left parties.
After much dithering and wrangling over seats, KCR made the announcement in the presence of TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu at the latter’s residence on Saturday evening and claimed that the combine will easily secure 200 assembly seats. But on the issue of the number of seats being shared, both Naidu and KCR refused to divulge saying they want to delay making it public as a strategic move.
But TDP and TRS sources said both sides had agreed on 10 Lok Sabha seats and 45 assembly seats for the TRS. The announcement of TRS joining the TDP-Left combine was made after hectic consultations between the two leaders at Naidu’s residence at which the TRS chief’s son and other party leaders were also present.
“Our aim is to defeat the Congress and work for separate Telangana and that is what made us go with the grand alliance,” KCR said. He also denied that the announcement was delayed on account of non-agreement over seat-sharing. “Seat-sharing was not the issue at all as was speculated in the media. Some give-and-take attitude will always be there to achieve an objective and here, our aim is to defeat the Congress party,” he said. With this, three major forces have emerged ahead of the elections. While the Congress is going it alone save the help of MIM in Hyderabad, Prajarajyam and T Devender Goud are likely to form a front while the third one would be that of the TDP-TRS-Left.
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