DS scotches reports on quitting TRS

New Delhi: TRS MP, D Srinivas, categorically denied reports in a section of media, including social media, to the effect that he was being wooed by the Congress back into its fold, here on Thursday and urged media not to spread canards.
Referring to the reports in this regard, Srinivas told media that rumours regarding his ditching the TRS were deliberate and spread by certain vested interests.

He said the Chief Minister, K Chandrashekar Rao, had only honoured him by inviting him into the TRS and making him an MP. Though he had a 40- year bond with the Congress, he preferred to severe the same for the sake of "Bangaru Telangana" and had full faith and trust in KCR's leadership.

In fact, while in the Congress itself as its PCC president, he had been instrumental in forging an alliance with the TRS before the 2014 general elections because he had all along believed that Telangana would progress and prosper only as an independent State.

As for KCR he was doing his best in keeping up the promises and if he was angry at the Congress charges, it was justified. Criticism that KCR was using language unbecoming of his stature and position was rubbish as the Chief Minister never placed himself on a pedestal and instead, had his feet firmly on ground.

The injustices rendered to Telangana by the previous rulers were the reason for the people of the region to revolt against the governments to seek separate statehood. Dismissing the rumours about his overtures towards the Congress or that Sonia Gandhi ever invited him back into the party fold, he said he would contemplate legal action against such scurrilous writings in future.