Hyderabad: Chief Minister and TRS supremo K. Chandrashekar Rao on Sunday finally put to rest months of speculation about him stepping down from the Chief Minister’s post to pave for his son, minister and party working president K. T. Rama Rao to rise to the chair.
Chandrashekar Rao made it clear that he had no plans to quit from the CM’s post, reiterating that he was in the pink of health to “continue as CM, for at least the next ten years”.
Rao warned party leaders not to talk or debate about the “CM change issue” either in public or in private, else they have to “face severe consequences”. He asked them not to indulge in such speculations, which are totally unwarranted and harm the interests of the party.
Rao, however, maintained complete silence on the relations of TRS with the BJP in the backdrop of heated debate in political circles that the TRS boss had suddenly turned soft towards the BJP after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and union home…