KCR’s victory rally well before the bypolls.

Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K Chandrashekar Rao’s rally in Siddipet yesterday was almost like a victory rally well before the bypolls.

The first rally attended by the TRS chief in the recent past in the constituency was impressive. It took nearly two hours for the rally to cover a 3-km distance in the town.

The rally, conducted in support of party candidate and KCR’s nephew T Harish Rao, began at the Ambedkar statue and culminated in a huge public meeting at Narsapur crossroads.

The TRS chief was accorded a rousing welcome by party activists and general public amidst drumbeats, slogans and fireworks.

Buoyed by the response to his rally, the TRS chief asked the people to elect Harish Rao with a majority of one lakh votes.

At the public meeting, Rao, in his usual manner, launched a diatribe against PCC chief D Srinivas.

“The shameless Srinivas is contesting in Nizamabad Urban.

Instead of contesting elections, the PCC chief should have stood before the Srikrishna Committee to tell his opinion about separate Telangana,’’ Rao thundered. He blamed the PCC chief for contesting against BJP candidate Lakshminarayana who quit his MLA post for the cause of Telangana.

In his 27-minute speech, Rao spoke about his fastunto- death and the double standards of TDP and Congress with regard to separate Telangana. He called upon people in the region to be united and teach a fitting lesson to Seemandhra leaders by defeating Congress and TDP candidates.

Training his guns on TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, the TRS president said the TDP candidates will not secure votes if Naidu campaigned for them.

He predicted that all the 12 TRS candidates who resigned from their posts would get re-elected in the bypolls. The TRS chief said he would spend the last days of his life in Siddipet after Telangana was formed. Listing out the benefits to the region after separation, Rao said there will be compulsory education for children.

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