{"id":302325,"date":"2018-09-06T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302325"},"modified":"2018-09-06T15:09:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:09:02","slug":"telangana-governor-accepts-kcr-recommendation-to-dissolve-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/telangana-governor-accepts-kcr-recommendation-to-dissolve-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Telangana Governor accepts KCR recommendation to dissolve assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-301489 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/kcr-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kcr-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kcr-506x420.jpg 506w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/kcr.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>After days of suspense, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president and Chief Minister Kalvakuntla Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday, decided to dissolve the assembly, clearing the decks for early elections in the state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Governor ESL Narasimhan had accepted his recommendation. The move will clear the way for early polls in the state, till then Rao will stay on as the caretaker Chief Minister until the new government is formed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At a Cabinet meeting in the afternoon, Rao, obtained the nod of his colleagues on dissolving the Assembly and immediately reached the Raj Bhavan asking the Governor ESL Narasimhan to recommend for early polls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While addressing the media, The Chief Minister, popularly known as KCR, said the decision to dissolve assembly for an early election was not a political move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The caretaker chief minister has already announced the names of 100 candidates. KCR will formally launch the party&#8217;s election campaign with a public meeting at Husnabad in Siddipet district on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sources in the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) on Wednesday claimed that the government had more-or-less made up its mind on the dissolution of the assembly, whose term ends next year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The assembly term is till May 2019 and elections in usual course would have been conducted along with the Lok Sabha polls. Following the dissolution of the assembly today, elections may held in December 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After days of suspense, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president and Chief Minister Kalvakuntla Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday, decided to dissolve the assembly, clearing the decks for early elections in the state.\u00a0 Governor ESL Narasimhan had accepted his recommendation. The move will clear the way for early polls in the state, till then Rao will stay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801,2072,2014,2921],"tags":[4805,4803,4804,2226,4802,2229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302326,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302325\/revisions\/302326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}