TRS lao, Telangana bachao: KCR

• Free and quality education from KG to PG in English medium
• Residential hostels in sprawling areas in each mandal
• 2-bedroom house for every poor family in 125 sq yards area

Hyderabad: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) is likely to go to people with the slogan ‘TRS lao, Telangana bachao.’ TRS chief KCR indicated this while addressing party workers on Tuesday after admitting the fire-brand leader from Warangal district, Konda Surekha, and her husband Konda Murali into the party.

Rao said the Telangana state requires a new party with a different thinking and style of working if the aspirations of the people were to be fulfilled.

He said the people of Telangana had seen the performance of the all the parties like Congress and TDP which had ruled the State all these years. During their regime, injustice was meted out to the region and hence it was a historic necessity that TRS be brought to power now.

Listing out his plans for welfare of weaker sections, he said that he would abolish caste-based residential hostels in the new state of Telangana. According to him, every child, irrespective of his caste and background, would be offered free and quality English medium education from KG till PG under the CBSE system. The government, he said, would build residential hostels with best facilities in a sprawling area of about 10-15 acres in every mandal. He further promised that a two-bedroom house would be constructed for every poor family in an area of 125 sq yards and it would have all necessary infrastructural facilities.

Speaking to media persons, Konda Surekha appealed to the people of Telangana not to mistake her for her comments she had made against TRS when she was in YSRCP. She said it was not her personal opinion. She apologised to the people if her comments had hurt them.

Explaining the reasons for joining TRS, she said she was convinced that only TRS under the leadership of K Chandrasekhar Rao would ensure reconstruction of the new state of Telangana. Surekha said that both she and her husband would work like committed soldiers for the cause, irrespective of their positions in the party.

Several other leaders from Congress and Telugu Desam party from Warangal, Mahabubnagar and Karimnagar districts besides former DGP of New Delhi cadre, Jayachandra also joined the party.