Deccan Chronicle

TRS cadre hold party flag fest

Harish Rao hoists flag in many wards

- DC CORRESPOND­ENT HYDERABAD, SEPT. 2

The rank and file of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti celebrated the party’s ‘flag festival’ with fervour across the state on Thursday.

As party president and Chief Minister K. Chandrashe­kar Rao, working president K.T. Rama Rao, several Cabinet ministers, party MPs, MLAs, MLCs, etc were away in Delhi to lay the foundation stone for the party office on Thursday, local TRS leaders from village-level to statelevel ensured that the party flag hoisting programme was a grand success.

Finance minister T. Harish Rao hoisted the party flag in several wards in undivided Medak district, while animal husbandry minister T. Srinivas Yadav hoisted party flags at several locations under the GHMC limits.

After the party flag festival, the exercise to reorganise the party was initiated at villagelev­el in all districts. The process to set up committees at all levels in gram panchayats, municipali­ties and municipal corporatio­ns would be taken up till September 20.

After September 20, the committees at district and state-level will be announced by the state party leadership before September 30.

However, the schedule for constituti­on of division-level committees and basti committees under the GHMC limits will be issued later after holding a special meeting with party leaders in the city this week.

Rao thanked the party's rank and file for making the flag festival a grand success. He urged them to show the same spirit and meet deadlines stipulated by the party leadership in constituti­ng party committees at all levels as part of restructur­ing of the party from grassroot level. Rao asked them to complete this exercise by September 20 by constituti­ng ward, mandal, town and municipal-level committees.

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R. PAVAN ?? TRS banners hanging on the PVNR Expressway for Telangana flag festival obstructs the view of passersby and traffic at Mehdipatna­m on Thursday.
— R. PAVAN TRS banners hanging on the PVNR Expressway for Telangana flag festival obstructs the view of passersby and traffic at Mehdipatna­m on Thursday.

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