HYDERABAD: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), which has completed two decades this year, has decided to study the organisational structures of two Dravidian parties — DMK and AIADMK — in Tamil Nadu.
TRS working president KT Rama Rao said that he will be visiting Tamil Nadu along with senior party leaders after November 15. During his recent conversation with two DMK MPs, KTR had reportedly discussed about the DMK’s organisational structure. “We want to study the model and organisational structures of both DMK and AIADMK,” a TRS general secretary said. Party sources said the two regional parties in Tamil Nadu have a strong presence and in the past few decades have gone from strength to strength while national parties like Congress and BJP have been struggling to make inroads in that state.
Sources said the ruling TRS has 66 lakh members across the state and organisational committees right from village to state level. The party is going to convene its plenary in the next few days and elect its president.
KTR said a regional party like TRS surviving and strengthening was no joke. He said in the undivided AP, only two political parties — TDP founded by NT Rama Rao in 1982 and TRS formed by K Chandrasekhar Rao in 2001 — have emerged as strong regional parties. Party sources said KTR had a chat with the two DMK MPs who met him while handing over a letter of Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin seeking KCR’s support on abolition of NEET.
On NEET, KTR said they may not sail with Tamil Nadu as several students from Telangana were pursuing medicine course in other states. “Any decision will be taken in the best interests of Telangana students,” he said. He said after the November 15 public meeting, the TRS would conduct training classes — from ministers to ward leaders — for nine months across the state. On groupism and infighting within the party in various districts, KTR said this reflected the party’s inner strength.
TRS working president KT Rama Rao said he will be visiting Tamil Nadu with senior party leaders in November 15. During his recent conversation with two DMK MPs, KTR had discussed about the DMK’s organisational structure
