Lakhs of people were gathered at the Kongara Kalan village in the outskirts of Hyderabad, on 2 September, to listen to Telangana Chief Minister and TRS party chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, popularly known as KCR.
And when the chopper arrived at 6 pm, carrying the Chief Minister, there were cheers in the air. KCR took the stage minutes later, but while he was non committal on early elections – a possible announcement that people were keenly watching for – he decided to blow the poll bugle anyway at the ‘Pragathi Nivedana’.
The main target of the TRS chief, during his under-an-hour speech, was seemingly the Congress party.
“Just like the Tamil people, we, too, should elect regional parties and not someone from Delhi,” KCR said.