Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao re-elected as president of TRS

Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao re-elected as president of TRS

HYDERABAD: Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was today re-elected as the president of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), the party he formed in 2001.

Telangana's home minister and election officer Nayani Narasimha Reddy announced that Rao was unanimously elected as the party president, ahead of the party's 16th plenary which began here today.

The party leaders and workers, who were present at the press conference held by Reddy at Telangana Bhavan (TRS headquarters here), raised slogans and distributed sweets as Rao's election was announced.

Rao, who was deputy speaker of the then undivided Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly when N Chandrababu Naidu was Chief Minister, quit the TDP and formed the TRS in Hyderabad in 2001 to fight for a separate Telangana state.