
KCR fears revolt in the TRS, says Revanth Reddy
The Hindu
Chief Minister will go for polls in 2022, says TPCC chief
Telangana Congress chief A. Revanth Reddy has claimed that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao feared revolt within the party after the Huzurabad byelection and the party’s proposed ‘Vijaya Garjana’ at Warangal was to keep its flock together.
In an informal interaction with reporters here, he said the Chief Minister will go for early polls in August 2022 along with Gujarat Assembly polls as a part of agreement with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao will cite 75 years of completion of the Indian Independence and use the historic occasion as an excuse to go for early polls.
The Congress chief also alleged that KCR has assured to help BJP gain political benefits in the Uttar Pradesh polls using the AIMIM to split the votes. An agreement has already been made with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and in return there will no raids or investigation into cases of corruption by KCR, he claimed.