Are we not part of the state ? : KCR

Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhar Rao has warned of a severe backlash if the State government did not officially celebrate the Telangana Liberation Day on September 17.

Reacting to reported refusal of Chief Minister K. Rosaiah to concede the demand during his visit to Warangal on Sunday, Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao asked what was the objection of the State government to observe the occasion officially when Maharashtra and Karnataka were doing it in parts of their own States that were liberated from the erstwhile Hyderabad State.

Is it to see that the people of Telangana lost their identity?. “Are we not part of the State?”, he questioned. Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao asserted that there was no way the government could escape from celebrating the occasion. Otherwise, it must face a major agitation.

He asked Congress MPs and MLAs in Telangana to pull down the government by quitting the party. This was a testing time for them as the self-respect of Telangana was involved. The Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief also said he would meet Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan and Mr. Rosaiah to convey to them the party’s stand on the issue.

They would be forewarned that the administration would be paralysed if the demand was not met. Earlier, Mr. Rao admitted into Telangana Rashtra Samiti several Telugu Desam and Praja Rajyam supporters from Nalgonda and Ranga Reddy districts.

He promised a 355 km flood flow canal from Jurala project in Mahbubnagar to Pakal lake in Warangal district in separate Telangana. No government in the past had designed such a project to supply water to Telangana by gravity at least when there were flash floods in Krishna, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti president said.