Congress: Telangana's puppet CM may have dropped early poll plans

Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao (L) shows a victory sign at a public rally at Pragati Nivedana Sabha, Telangana on Sunday. Pic/PTI

The Congress in Telangana on Monday claimed that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao may have dropped his plans to go for early Assembly elections in the state after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Election Commission did not back his idea.

Charging Rao with being a 'katputhli' (puppet) and 'slave' of Modi, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee chief spokesperson Sravan Dasoju said, the CM's "remote control" is with the PM, who did not say 'yes' to his idea of early poll. "It does not look like a possibility, he said, adding updated electoral rolls would be ready only by Oct-end.

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