KTR takes over as TRS working prez

Hyderabad: K T Rama Rao, the son of TRS chief and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, took over as the party’s working president on Monday, a move seen by many as his virtual anointment as the heir apparent.
Amid much fanfare, Rama Rao, popularly known as KTR, assumed the new responsibility at Telangana Bhavan, the party headquarters here. State Home Minister Mohammad Mahmood Ali, and senior leader and the chief minister’s nephew, T Harish Rao, were among those present.
The 42-year old, who was considered as the number two in the party for the past couple of years, had played a key role in the thumping win of the TRS in the recent Assembly polls. Rama Rao said the party president had given him an important responsibility to make TRS an “unconquerable force in the future, as time has come for him (Chandrasekhar Rao) to be involved in government administration, in taking forward the welfare and development schemes undertaken on a large scale by the state government”. (PTI)