Telangana chief minister alleges plot against him

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) has sent ripples across the already turbulent waters of the state’s politics by alleging his political opponents from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Congress and others had hatched a deep conspiracy soon after the formation of Telangana state to stop him from becoming chief minister.

“But the MIM helped me in foiling it,” he said.

The alleged conspiracy involved getting President’s rule imposed in the state by creating trouble through splitting his party, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), KCR said, adding he foiled the conspiracy only because of the timely help from Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi.

Addressing a party meeting on the occasion of Congress MP Gutta Sukhinder Reddy and others joining the TRS, the chief minister said he was revealing it for the first time after two years.

“Despite the fact that the TRS had won 63 seats in 119 member state assembly and lost another 14 seats by just 500 to 1000 votes, conspiracy was hatched to stop me from taking oath as the Chief Minister and impose President’s rule. But the MIM stood by me”, he said.

He named Telugu Desam and the Congress as the conspirators and said that first Asaduddin Owaisi telephoned him to warn and then met him personally to reveal the details of the conspiracy which was hatched in Delhi.

“Not only he alerted me but very next day he convened a meeting of his party’s MLAs and passed a resolution to support the TRS government unconditionally”, he said.

He said, before he took oath as chief minister, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu had said that Telangana and Andhra would rejoin, like Berlin city after the fall of the wall.

Even the Telangana Congress Working President Bhatti Vikramarka also said that TRS government in the state would fall.