Political Diary

the formation of Telangana state,’’ party sources said ahead of the visit to the national capital. ’’While our leader will leave for New Delhi later today, we will join him in a day or two,’’ a former Minister, who took part in the internal discussions, said.The TRS President would use his New Delhi visit to try and meet, among others, BJP Prime

Ministerial candidate L K Advani and senior Congress leaders, including its President Sonia Gandhi.Mr Rao, who was earlier scheduled to go to Delhi yesterday, postponed his trip as senior leaders of other parties were busy with the next round of Lok Sabha elections on April 30.The party, which made an indepth analysis of the voting pattern in the two-phase elections, hoped that the TDP-led four party alliance, which included the TRS and the two Communist parties, would get majority to form the Government.

The party would press for passage of Assembly resolution, urging the Centre to expedite the process of formation of separate Telangana state. The party would have no problem in supporting the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance Government as the BJP had promised in its manifesto to hasten the process of creation of separate Telangana within 100 days if voted to power.

Mr Rao would meet leaders of various parties and seek support for creation of Telangana state.Meanwhile, TRS leaders, led by former Ministers N Narasimha Reddy, T Harish Rao, A Chandrasekar and party MP B Vinod Kumar, celebrated the party formation day at Telangana Bhavan, the party headquarters, by offering floral tributes to ’’Telangana Talli’’ statue.