{"id":306983,"date":"2018-12-14T05:54:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T05:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306983"},"modified":"2018-12-14T06:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T06:38:24","slug":"kcr-appoints-son-kt-rama-rao-as-trs-working-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kcr-appoints-son-kt-rama-rao-as-trs-working-president\/","title":{"rendered":"KCR appoints son KT Rama Rao as TRS Working President"},"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=\" wp-image-306984 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/K-Tharaka-Rama-Rao-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/K-Tharaka-Rama-Rao-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/K-Tharaka-Rama-Rao-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/K-Tharaka-Rama-Rao.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Telangana Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Friday appointed his son K.T. Rama Rao as the Working President of the party, soon after Rao\u2019s party victory in recent state assembly elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rao took the decision in the wake of his plans to concentrate on national politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rama Rao, known as KTR, is the current Sircilla MLA and made his electoral debut by winning from Sircilla Assembly Constituency in 2009 and has been re-elected to the Assembly to retain the seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The chief minister has several tasks cut out, including expediting construction of irrigation projects and other important works in government, and hence the responsibility of party affairs has been entrusted with KTR.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A statement from the chief minister&#8217;s office said that KTR was the most trusted person in the party in accordance with KCR&#8217;s plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cChief Minister KCR strongly believes and is confident that the working style, the commitment, the direction and leadership qualities of KTR will help in leading the TRS party efficiently and effectively by him in the days to come,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telangana Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Friday appointed his son K.T. Rama Rao as the Working President of the party, soon after Rao\u2019s party victory in recent state assembly elections. Rao took the decision in the wake of his plans to concentrate on national politics. Rama Rao, known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2072,2014,2921],"tags":[4200,10278,4804,10277,10276,2229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306983"}],"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=306983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306985,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306983\/revisions\/306985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}