Newly-appointed working president of Telangana Rashtra Samithi K T Rama Rao on Saturday sought to play his cards close to his chest on the talk that he would be anointed as the next chief minister of Telangana, most probably after the coming parliament elections.
Speaking to media at the meet-the-press programme at Hyderabad Press Club, KTR said there was no vacancy for the post of chief minister at present.
“Trust me, I don’t have any desire to become the chief minister. In fact, I, all my party MLAs and leaders, besides people of the state are confident that KCR will rule the state for another 15 years at least. There is absolutely no thought whatsoever to become the chief minister,” he said.
However, party leaders are admitting in private that the decision to make KCR as the chief minister had already been taken and it is only a matter of time.
“KCR has dissolved the state assembly only to make the path clear for anointment of his son as the chief minister. In the next six months, KCR will gradually transfer power to KTR in the name of focusing on national politics. Once the Lok Sabha elections are announced, he would take a plunge into the contest, leaving the state to his son,” sources said.
In all probability, KCR will not accommodate KTR into the cabinet now and make him concentrate on the party.
“Soon after the parliament elections, he will make the son chief minister,” a party source said.