Anything less than Telangana unacceptable: Rao

TRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao on Monday night asserted that nothing short of Telangana with Hyderabad as its capital would be acceptable to his party and he will continue the 'fight' for a separate state till the demand was met.



"We won't accept anything less than Telangana prior to the formation of Andhra Pradesh in 1956. We should fight for Telangana till it is achieved. We have struggled for independence for nearby 200 years. Failure of 1857 revolt was not the end of struggle. That should be the spirit of Telangana movement," he said.


Coming down heavily on Congress leaders for allegedly not helping the Telangana cause, Rao claimed that it was the same Congress that cheated the Telangana people even in 1969 when hundreds of people died for the separate statehood cause.