K Chandrasekhar Rao Re-elected as President of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS)

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was on Friday April 21,2017re-elected as the president of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), the party he formed in 2001.

Telangana's Home Minister and election officer Nayani Narasimha Reddy announced that Rao was unanimously elected as the party president, ahead of the party's 16th plenary which began in Hyderabad on Friday April 21,2017

The party leaders and workers, who were present at the press conference held by Reddy at Telangana Bhavan (TRS headquarters here), raised slogans and distributed sweets as Rao's election was announced.

Rao, who was deputy speaker of the then undivided Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly when N Chandrababu Naidu was Chief Minister, quit the TDP and formed the TRS in Hyderabad in 2001 to fight for a separate Telangana state.

Riding on a wave of support in the 2014 Assembly elections, Rao became the first Chief Minister of Telangana on June 2, 2014, the day the state came into existence.