Rao to be elected TRS legislature party leader tomorrow

December 11, 2018 21:54

Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, who led his party to a two-thirds majority in the December 7 assembly elections in Telangana, will be formally elected leader of the legislature party on Wednesday, party sources said.

A meeting of the legislature party has been convened at 11.30 am in Hyderabad on Wednesday, the sources said.

Asked when Rao would be sworn in as Chief Minister, a senior TRS leader told PTI: "Tomorrow, he (Rao) will take a call on that. It (swearing-in) will definitely happen before December 15... after the 15th it's not auspicious."

Meanwhile, Rao met the Governor E S L Narasimhan at the Raj Bhavan Tuesday to stake his claim to form the government for a second time.

Rao had dissolved the assembly in September eight months ahead of schedule in a political gamble that paid off handsomely in the elections, with his party the TRS decimating its rivals, winning 84 of the 119 seats in the assembly.

The Congress won 18, while the Asadudding Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, which supported TRS, bagged seven.

The Bharatiya Janata Party won just one seat. -- PTI

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