TRS hopes for Cong victory

HYDERABAD: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) is hoping a Congress-led coalition will manage to wrest power at New Delhi and it hopes to have crucial leverage in it.
If TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao''s best-laid plans come to be, he will be to the next non-NDA PM what Chandrababu Naidu was to Vajpayee.
Although exit polls have forecast a victory for the Congress-TRS alliance, the separatist Telangana party can have no more than six MPs, for that''s the number of Lok Sabha seats it has contested.
With the exit poll results also showing the gap between the BJP-led coalition and the one led by Congress narrowing at Delhi, the TRS is hoping its contribution to the numbers will be crucial for a (Congress) majority.
If such a situation arises, the TRS is hoping to operate the levers in such a way that Parliament will quickly vote for a separate Telangana, which is the party''s raison d''etre.
The TRS'' precondition to joining a Congress-led government would be at least one berth in the Union cabinet.
Which is partly why the Telangana Rashtra Samithi'' top duo of Chandrashekhar Rao and A Narendra contested Lok Sabha as well as Assembly seats.