Staff Reporter / Hyderabad
Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) supremo and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today announced that his party will now be called Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS).
The TRS general Body has resolved to change the name of the party to Bharat Rashtra Samiti, at a meeting held at party headquarters in Hyderabad today. He also said accordingly the party will take up activities nationwide. Party constitution also has been changed to this effect. All key leaders of TRS and JD (S) leader H D Kumaraswamy along with 20 MLAs of his party and 2 MPs of Tamil Nadu’s Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) also attended the meeting.
The change in the party’s name will be formally enrolled with the Election Commission of India.
CM KCR said the notification for bye-election to Munugodu Assembly will not affect the general body meeting organised in Dussehra and the members need not get confused.
The Chief Minister reiterated that, as announced earlier, the general party meeting will be held at 11 am on October 5 in Telangana Bhavan. Leaders are requested to attend the meeting within the specified time.
BJP REACTS
Calling the move a misadventure, BJP Telangana chief spokesperson K Krishna Sagar Rao said, “Planning national political entry, while struggling to keep his government operational financially is an unworthy exercise.”
“I am wondering how, by just changing the name from TRS to BRS, a party can become a national party. A party needs to get quantifiable voter support in multiple states for it to be recognized as a national party,” he said.
BJP believes there’s no ‘Telangana Model’ and it exists only in the fictitious imagination of CM KCR, he said.