Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader KT Rama Rao said that TRS would attempt to gather more like-minded parties across the country after the Assembly polls to strengthen the federal structure.
He said, “I didn’t want to jump the gun. Our focus is on state politics till 11 December (result day). After 11th, we will start talking about our efforts to gather more like-minded parties across the country. We had already started earlier.”
He went on to add that,even before Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu and others “woke up from sleep”, it was the TRS president who started efforts to forge an alternative platform to the Congress and BJP. The TRS idea is that states should be strengthened further in a federal system and that the Centre should decentralize its powers more.
Criticizing BJP for letting the country down, Rama Rao said there is no need for TRS to have a soft corner towards BJP. Both the Congress and the BJP have failed the state.
He even said that he would take political ‘sanyas’ (renunciation) if TRS fails to come to power on its own. Challenging other parties he said, “Does any of the leaders who claim to be coming to power have the courage to accept this challenge?”
“We are accountable to the people and we are answering the people… People will give verdict if they feel our decision is right,” he said.