Hyderabad: TRS leader KT Rama Rao on Monday announced that Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has decided to extend support to joint Opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha in the election for President of India. Minister KTR spoke to reporters after attending the nomination process of Opposition presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha in Delhi.
The TRS leader said they support Yashwant Sinha as a person who respects constitutional values. He also invited Yashwant Sinha to Hyderabad. "We urge other parties to support Yashwant Sinha," he said.
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He claimed that the central government has been functioning undemocratically for the past eight years as a dictator with dictatorial policies and unfairly treating the various states. In 8 states, they are overthrowing their respective governments even if they do not have a majority.
The minister said he had no personal grievances with NDA presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu.
KTR said the BJP has repeatedly said that it supports the tribal candidate for the presidency. The tribal population percentage increased after the formation of our state. It has been four years since the Telangana Assembly passed a unanimous resolution to increase the Schedule Tribal percentage of reservations accordingly and sent it to the Center for approval. If the BJP loves the tribals, then this practice must be accepted. But the central government is not done yet, said KTR.
(With inputs from ABP Desam — It is a Telugu platform of ABP News. For more news, commentary and latest happenings from two Telugu states, follow https://telugu.abplive.com//amp)