The image of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) is fizzling out as another leader ups the ante against its president K Chandrasekhara Rao on Saturday.

Even before ending the saga of Raghunandan Rao, another leader Chinta Swamy, TRS general secretary came down heavily against KCR. He charged KCR with selling CM seat. He said the TRS was giving an open offer for leaders to sell MLA and MP seats. He was charging Rs 1 crore for MLA seat and Rs 10 crore for MP seat, Swamy alleged.

Chinta Swamy said KCR sold chief minister seat for Rs 100 crore to MP Vivek. He said KCR was not dedicating time to explain him the increasing indifferent tendencies in the Telangana movement and in the party. In an open letter to KCR, Swamy demanded that KCR, who very often flay that all the samaikhyandhra leaders were preventing Telangana, should give clarify that why he was splitting the Telangana leaders. “The KCR family was enjoying with ‘seat and notes’ by totally ignoring the Telangana movement. If we need money to win the seats, we can make it by begging. What was the necessity to sell tickets,” he questioned.

Chinta Swamy tendered his resignation on Saturday. Leaders like Dommata Sambaiah, Chada Suresh Reddy and Mekala Sarangapani resigned TRS and joined TDP recently. Former MP Rumandla Ramachandraiah also came out of the TRS recently. Raghunandan Rao too made strong allegations against KCR and complained to CBI against Harish Rao charging him collecting huge funds from industrialists. It seems KCR’s decision to lift ‘flood gates’ to allow leaders from other leaders into the party boomeranged!

-Hyderabad, Sakshipost