TRS rejects Chandrasekhara Rao’s resignation
Hyderabad: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) on Wednesday rejected its president K Chandrasekhara Rao's resignation after the setback in the by-elections last week and urged him to continue leading the movement for separate statehood to Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh.
An emergency meeting of the party unanimously passed a resolution appealing to him to take back his resignation. However, confusion continued in the party ranks as Rao stayed away from the meeting.
A delegation of senior leaders later left for Rao's residence to convey to him the feelings expressed at the meet.
KCR, as the TRS chief is popularly known, resigned on Tuesday, owning moral responsibility for the party's crushing defeat in the by-elections last week.
TRS, which is fighting for carving out a separate state of Telangana, could retain only two of the four Lok Sabha seats and seven of 16 assembly seats in Thursday's by-elections, results of which were announced on Sunday.
Shocked by the defeat in two Lok Sabha and nine assembly seats, KCR on Sunday decided to quit as party president and sent his resignation to party general secretary Madhusudhana Chary on Tuesday.
The executive meeting, presided over by legislator V Laxmikantha Rao, felt that KCR was not responsible for the party's defeat.
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