Hyderabad, April 24: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, will demand the post of deputy Chief Minister and a few other key portfolios from the Telugu Desam chief, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, in exchange for extending support and joining the ministry, if the Mahakutami forms the government in the state, party sources said.
Mr Chandrasekhar Rao’s statement that his party would not mind joining the NDA government if it was voted to power at the Centre for the sake of separate Telangana has unnerved the TD.
The TRS chief made it clear he would align with any party which is willing to give Telangana statehood. The BJP promised Telangana within 100 days from the date of forming the government at the Centre.
The TD had ruled out joining the BJP-led government at the Centre and promised to work for the formation of a Third Front government with the support of the Left, AIADMK and other non-BJP and non-Congress parties including the TRS.
The TD leaders said the party doesn’t rule out pinpricks from the TRS.
“We know the TRS chief well. He will certainly demand ministerial posts as he had done with Congress. We are prepared. The problem will be acute if the TD gains wafer thin majority or needs to depend on the TRS for forming the government,” a senior TD leader said.
Mr Chandrasekhar Rao’s decision to keep all his flock at Telangana Bhavan from May 15 is solely to keep them from straying and bargain for ministerial berth in the state and the Centre.
According to a senior TRS leader, Mr Chandrasekhar Rao is confident of being a key player in the formation of government in the state and Centre and he had openly bragged about it.
The TRS chief claimed his party would win 30-plus Assembly and 7/8 Lok Sabha seats and claimed he would approve a Prime Minister’s name.
Mr Rao had kept Mr Naidu on tenterhooks before forging alliance demanding his share of seats.
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