PM only paying lip-service to federalism: TRS

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi alleged Wednesday Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not done enough to empower States and is paying only lip-service to federalism.

The TRS would play a "very vital role in Delhi, and should be able to influence Delhi to the extent that states will get more powers," party leader K T Rama Rao, son of TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), said.

Noting that Modi was earlier Chief Minister of Gujarat for three terms, he said: "We would have believed, we would have hoped that he being former Chief Minister himself would have empowered states much much more because stronger the states, stronger the country; that's true federalism; can't just be federalism for lip-service.