Minister for IT and Panchayat Raj K T Rama Rao’s statement that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi can be rechristened as Telugu Rashtra Samithi has triggered a hilarious debate among the political circles.
As expected, the Telugu Desam Party reacted strongly to KTR’s statement. Telangana TDP working president A Revanth Reddy, known for his KCR-bashing, sought to know whether KTR would change the name of his party office from Telangana Bhavan to Telugu Bhavan.
“It is pretty obvious that KTR has made the statement to woo the Andhra voters in Hyderabad in the GHMC elections,” he said.
While welcoming the announcement of KTR that he would contest from Bhimavaram in the next elections, Revanth demanded that the minister and his father K Chandrasekhar Rao should first tender an apology for describing the TDP as “Andhra party” and describing Andhra biryani as “Paeda Biryani” (fried rice made of cow dung).
“The Seemandhra people will not believe such gimmicks of the TRS before the GHMC elections,” he said.
