Telangana assembly elections 2018: KCR’s nephew T Harish Rao helms TRS election charge
Hindustan TimesA key election strategist of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, irrigation minister T Harish Rao had to come out strongly earlier this month to rebut reports that he wanted his uncle and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, better known as KCR, to lose from Gajwel. Harish Rao, 46, has stood by KCR through thick and thin in the struggle for Telangana but, in recent months, there have been reports of disquiet in the first family of the TRS. The reason, political observers say, is the prominence being given to KCR’s son KT Rama Rao in party affairs at the expense of Harish Rao. Having been the main TRS troubleshooter since its formation in April 2001, Harish Rao had resigned from the YS Rajasekhar Reddy cabinet in 2005 in protest against the ruling Congress party’s stand against the Telangana statehood demand.