The Telangana CM wrote a strongly-worded letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the CM expressed anguish against center, for states not being given "flexibility to design & modify schemes based on their needs & conditions to ensure maximum benefit to people".
The CM pointed out that the PM had asked the same question on the rupee as Gujarat CM but now trying to dodge the question.
The TRS will also be rechristened as BRS in the meeting on June 19, a release quoted him as having said.
The TRS leader has been at loggerheads with the saffron party on issues of paddy recruitment, and on several occasions, claimed that the BJP is adopting divisive politics to cover up its failures.
Addressing his party's 21st Foundation Day celebrations, KCR, as Rao is addressed, asserted he had turned down the Left parties' idea of dislodging the ruling BJP at the Centre and insisted that uplifting people's lives was more important.
Maharashtra Opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis said it was not new for chief ministers of states to meet in this manner, adding that KCR had met him as well when he was CM of Maharashtra between 2014 and 2019.
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Every year on June 2 is observed as Telangana Formation Day as this is the day when the Telangana state was officially formed. The Government of India declared this historic day for the Telangana, the youngest state in India in 2014. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday took to Twitter and congratulated Telangana for attaining statehood.
Hours after the death of a bus driver, TSRTC conductor allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his house on Sunday night as the strike against the state government entered its ninth day. The driver had set himself ablaze and later succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Hyderabad.
The Telangana government on Saturday directed Yadadri temple authorities to remove images of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao and all other political leaders which were carved on the pillars of the temple.
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao is likely to expand his cabinet early next month and bring back back his son K.T. Rama Rao and nephew T. Harish Rao.
"People are laughing at him. He has become a joke," Rao said at a news conference on Tuesday night.
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday had an hour-long meeting with DMK President M.K. Stalin here but it appeared that his proposal for a non-BJP, non-Congress coalition didn't have takers.
K Chandrashekhar Rao has released the list of 17 TRS candidates in Telangana for the upcoming Lok Sabha election 2019.
Compared to last year, this year's ritual is expected to be at a much larger scale.
While Akhilesh's statement hinted at his lack of interest in any future alliances with Congress, he also openly expressed support for federal front proposed by Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao and even went on to congratulate him for his efforts.
This was Rao's first meeting with Modi after the former won the assembly elections to return to power in Telangana.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: The meeting between the two leaders assumed significance amid talks about efforts on formation of a new political front of like-minded, non-BJP and non-Congress parties to take on the national ones in the upcoming polls.
Rao will meet Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in Bhubaneswar on December 23 and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata the next day, a release from his office said.
The newly-elected MLAs met at Telangana Bhavan, the TRS headquarters here, and took the decision unanimously, the party sources said.
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