"If not, the TRS will not like to merge and that will be a no-win situation for us. We now need TRS more than they need us," a senior minister from Telangana, currently camping in New Delhi, said over phone after the Lok Sabha cleared the Bill today.
"Whether we can take full credit for securing Telangana state is a big question as obviously the TRS will go to town with its own claims. So, a merger is a political compulsion for us to make things even. But whether we can concede much ground to TRS in the deal is indeed a dilemma," he remarked.
The TRS, on the other hand, has already chalked out an action plan for "building a modern Telangana", positioning itself in the lead role.
In fact, many of the top TRS leaders who have been part of it since inception are averse to any "outright surrender" to the Congress after having achieved a separate state through their 13-year-old movement, sources said.
"We are in advantageous position now from which Congress is seeking to take gain. But we should get the major share of the cake," a TRS politburo member noted.
