As the city of Hyderabad gears up to host the first plenary of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) after it came to power in the Telangana State, decks were cleared for the unanimous election of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao as party president for another term of two years.
Presiding officer for the party president’s election and Home Minister N Narasimha Reddy said that six sets of nomination papers were filed on behalf of KCR as the time limit for filing nomination came to an end on Monday evening. “No other name was proposed for the party president’s post,” he said.
KCR’s name was proposed by Deputy Chief Minister Kadiam Srihari and was seconded by six other Ministers. A formal announcement of re-election of KCR will be announced during the party plenary starting from Thursday.
The ruling party has pulled out all the stops to make the event an impressive show of its organisation strength. The party expects 40,000 delegates from all over the State to attend the event. Public meeting, the highlight of the plenary will be addressed by KCR setting an agenda for the party for the coming years. Party leaders said that more than 100,000 people will attend the meet.
lalbahadur Stadium (Fateh Maidan) is being decked up for the plenary and seven different committees were formed to oversee various aspects of the arrangement including decoration of the city.