Amid the continuing speculation of early polls to Telangna legislative Assembly, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
The meeting at PM’s residence continued for 20 minutes. According to the official sources, KCR raised several pending issues and sought PM’s intervention for their early resolution.
He sought the Centre’s nod to the new zonal system in Telangana to facilitate the expeditious recruitment to the Government jobs.
The other pending issues which came up for discussion include transfer of defence land for the construction of new State Secretariat building in Secunderabad, clearance to the pending Backward Classes reservation amendment Bill to give 12 per cent reservations to Muslims and the Scheduled Tribes, setting up Central schools in the newly created districts, separate High Court for Telangana, and sanctioning Indian Institute of Management and IIIT for the State.
Sources said that the Chief Minister drew the attention of the Prime Minister to lack of any response from various Ministries to the pending demand despite his earlier two representations to him.
This was the third meeting of KCR with the Prime Minister during last two months.
The Chief Minister who left for New Delhi last evening will stay for another couple of days and meet other Union Ministers including Home Minister Rajnath Singh, sources added.
KCR’s frequent meetings with the Prime Minister were being seen as an indication of growing proximity between the TRS and the BJP and their close coordination on the issue of advancing the elections to the State Assembly.
Sources said that the issue of early elections also figured in today’s meeting as KCR was keen to have assembly polls by the end of the year. Sources said that KCR was trying to take Modi into confidence and enlist his support to the idea.
Speculations were rife that KCR would like to dissolve the assembly in September to pave the way for elections along wit the polls in three BJP ruled States of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
Before boarding the special aircraft last evening KCR also addressed the joint meeting of TRS legislature party, Parliamentary party and the State committee where he exuded confidence that the TRS will return to power by winning 101 of the 119 assembly seats. Quoting his various surveys KCR said that even in the remaining seats margin between the ruling and opposition parties will be very narrow in ten seats. The meeting authorized KCR to take a final decision on early polls and KCR told them that he will bare his mind soon.