Telangana Rashtra Samithi
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Telangana Rashtra Samithi
తెలంగాణ రాష్ట్ర సమితి तेलंगाना राष्ट्र समिति تلنگانہ راسترا سمیتی |
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| Abbreviation | TRS |
| President | K. Chandrashekar Rao |
| Lok Sabha leader | A. P. Jithender Reddy |
| Rajya Sabha leader | K. Keshava Rao |
| Founder | K. Chandrashekar Rao |
| Founded | 27 April 2001 |
| Headquarters | Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. |
| Ideology |
Regionalism Right-wing populism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Colours | Pink |
| ECI Status | state Party |
| Alliance |
UPA (2004–2006) NDA (2006–2009) Third Front (2014 – present) |
| National convener | K. Chandrashekar Rao |
| Seats in Lok Sabha |
11 / 545
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| Seats in Rajya Sabha |
3 / 245
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Car |
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| Website | |
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Telangana Rashtra Samithi (abbreviated as TRS) is an Indian regional political party based in Telangana State. Founded on 27 April 2001 by K. Chandrashekar Rao, with a single point agenda of creating a separate Telangana state with Hyderabad as its capital. It has been instrumental in carrying forth a sustained agitation for the granting of statehood to Telangana.
In the 2014 Telangana Assembly Election, the party won the majority seats and formed the first Government in Telangana State. K. Chandrashekar Rao became the Chief Minister of Telangana. In the 2014 general election it has won 11 seats making it eighth largest party in Lok Sabha. It also won 3 seats in Rajya Sabha.
K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), the founder and president of Telangana Rashtra Samithi, was a member of the Telugu Desam Party until he quit the party due to differences with Nara Chandrababu Naidu about Telangana and formed the TRS in 2001 at Hyderabad. He quit the Membership of AP Legislative Assembly and the post of Deputy Speaker of AP Legislature while floating the Party. The party initially won one third of Mandal Parishad Territorial Constituencies (MPTC) and one quarter of Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies (ZPTC) in Siddipet within sixty days of the formation of the party.
In the 2004 assembly elections, the TRS formed an alliance with Indian National Congress and won 26 state assembly seats and also won 5 parliament seats at the national level. It joined the governments at both state and central level. In September 2006 the party withdrew support for the central government on the grounds of indecision by the government over the delivery of its electoral promise to create Telangana. When the Central government failed to deliver Telangana, the party withdrew support from the government.[8] On 13 September 2006, Rao triggered a by-election in his Lok Sabha constituency of Karimnagar, claiming provocation from one of the Congress MLA. He won the subsequent by-election with a strong majority. All TRS MLAs and MPs resigned their positions in April 2008 when the Central government did not meet their demand for a separate state in its latest budget session for the 5-year term. The by-election was held on 29 May 2008.[9] In the by-elections, 2008, TRS won 7 out of the 16 assembly segments and 2 out of the 4 loksabha segments, a significant defeat for the party. TRS Chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao offered to resign after he lost a number of seats in by-elections but was convinced to remain in office.
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