TRS observes birth anniversary of Telangana ideologue

TRS Monday observed the birth

anniversary of the late Telangana ideologue K Jayashankar

today. Speaking at a function at the party office here, TRS

president K Chandrasekhar Rao paid rich tributes to

Jayashankar. The TRS president, who has been saying that he had

received "signals" from the Centre about the imminent

formation of separate Telangana state, stated today that he

was maintaining `a strategic silence' over the statehood

agitation. Jayashankar, an academician, had vigorously campaigned

for the separate state during his lifetime. Maintaining that Centre had given him an assurance about

formation of the state after the Vice Presidential poll, the

TRS president had said yesterday that if the assurance was not

fulfilled, the agitation would be stepped up. "The Prime Minister had asked us to let peaceful

atmosphere prevail (in Andhra Pradesh) for the Centre to take

a decision. So, we are waiting patiently. We got an assurance

over formation of Telangana after the Vice Presidential poll.If they give Telangana, fine. Otherwise, we will continue

fighting for it," he said, addressing a gathering at Nizamabad

yesterday.