A day after Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao met Congress president Sonia Gandhi, he called on party’s vice-president Rahul Gandhi and AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh to talk about either merger or alliance of the two party.
Sources said that the merger or alliance will be announced by Rao after he returns to Hyderabad on Wednesday from New Delhi where he has been lobbying for the next political equation in the Deccan region. The TRS chief also called on President Pranab Mukherjee to thank him on the Telangana issue.
Rao met Rahul and conveyed his gratitude for the Telangana decision and also discussed about the prospects of political equations for the formation of a State Government in Telangana. His meeting with the top Congress leaders has come amid speculation over possible merger of his party with Congress or the forging of an alliance between the two.
The TRS chief also held talks with Digvijay Singh about the possible merger or alliance between the two parties, a statement issued by TRS stated.Speculation has been rife that the TRS would either merge with the Congress or at least form an alliance with the party in the wake of the Telangana Bill being passed in Parliament.