Will move court if KCR calls early polls: Cong

NEW DELHI : The Congress has threatened to move court if Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao dissolves the assembly and calls early polls.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leaders have indicated that Rao — popularly known as KCR – could dissolve the assembly by mid-september and call fresh polls in November-december, along with state elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram. Telangana elections are due in April-may next year, along with the Lok Sabha polls.

Senior Congress leader M Shashidhar Reddy said that if KCR dissolved the assembly, his party would request the Election Commission (EC) to delay the Telangana polls until a revised voters’ list is published in January next year.

“We will request the EC not to club the Telangana polls with the elections to four states in December and delay them so that time is available for us to ensure voters’ lists are not doctored,” he said.

“If that is not done, there will be scope for legal options and we are ready to adopt those. We will move the court,” warned Reddy.

The threat to move court only reveals the Congress’s nervousness, said Vinod Kumar Boianapalli, TRS leader and Lok Sabha MP from Karimnagar.

TRS TO HOLD MEGA RALLY TODAY

HYDERABAD: TRS is all set to hold a massive show of strength here on Sunday. Billed as ‘the mother of all rallies’, it will be preceded by a meeting of the state cabinet, which is likely to take a decision on the early polls.

Leaders of TRS said chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will take “key decisions” at the cabinet meeting and announce them at the public meeting. IANS