TL CM says ready for early polls, challenges oppn to face it

Hinting at early elections, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao today said he was ready to go for polls and challenged the Opposition parties to face it if they were willing to.

"Presently in Telangana, there has been a steady growth in all the fields. This growth should not be stopped due to the politics being done by opposition parties. They should stop levelling baseless allegations," the TRS chief, popularly known as KCR, said here.

"We are focused on development... but opposition is indulging in cheap politics and keeping on criticising our government," he charged. "I want to ask are they willing to face the election? Let us face it and people will decide by giving a mandate so that the party concerned can rule the government," he said.

Exuding confidence that TRS would win the 2019 elections, Rao claimed that surveys have already predicted that the party would bag 100 plus seats in the 119-member assembly.

"As per the surveys TRS party will easily win in 100 plus seats with more than 50,000 (votes) majority in each constituency," he added.

TRS had won 63 seats in the 2014 Assembly elections, while the Congress stood in second place with 26 seats. The BJP had bagged five seats.

Rao was addressing party workers at Telangana Bhavan here where former minister Danam Nagender, formally joined the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) along with his supporters after resigning from Congress on June 22.

The state, Rao said is growing in all sectors including Agriculture and was ranked number one in ease of doing business.

Stating that AIMIM is a friendly and reliable party, Rao said it was "an honest friend and truthful."