KCR appoints son as working president of TRS

Chief minister and Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K. Chandrasekhar Rao has appointed his son, K. Taraka Rama Rao, as the working president of the party.

The decision, likely to have a far reaching impact on TRS politics, came a day after KCR took oath as chief minister for second term following landslide victory of the party in the assembly elections.

The 64-year-old KCR has decided to concentrate more time on national politics to bring a “qualitative change”, official sources said.

“KCR took the decision of appointing KTR as working president with a view to entrusting the responsibility of party affairs to a most trusted and efficient person, since he would be occupied with the governance activities like expediting construction of irrigation projects and also to implement the electoral promises in letter and spirit”, an official release said.

With this move the 42-year old KTR has inched closer to eventually taking over from his father as head of the state government.