HYDERABAD, India, 19 February 2007 — The president of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), K. Chandrasekhar Rao, yesterday spurned a Congress offer to form an alliance for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council elections.
Chandrasekhar rejected the two seats offered by Congress for local authority constituencies. Taking exception to the “unilateral announcement” of AP Congress Committee President K. Keshav Rao on the issue, Chandrasekhar said that his party was ready to contest by itself after assessing its strength.
The TRS president, who quit the UPA government and was re-elected to the Lok Sabha after resigning his seat last year, said the TRS was prepared to make sacrifices for the establishment of separate Telangana state.
“We are ready to surrender all the seats (in the Legislative Council poll) to Congress if they come out with an announcement on the formation of a separate Telangana state.
“There is no question of alliance with Congress unless they come forward with a positive statement on the issue,” he said.
