Telangana Chief Minister KCR Meets Modi  

New Delhi:Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday.

This was Chandrashekar Rao’s first meeting with Narendra Modi after the former won the Assembly elections to return to power in Telangana.

He discussed a variety of issues with the Prime Minister, including release of funds for 10 backward districts, setting up a separate high court for Telangana, Kendriya Vidyalayas in the new districts and an IIIT in Karimnagar district. Indian Institute of Management(IIM) at Hyderabad, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas(JNVs) in new districts and also the saction of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) In Hyderabad.Expeditious completion of Railways Projects ,Scheduled Caste sub-categorization. Setting of Tribal University in Warangal District.

Chandrashekar Rao's meeting with Narendra Modi comes after he met his Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik on Sunday and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday.

The TRS chief, who is in Delhi since Monday night, also plans to meet Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati.

Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Akhilesh Yadav has said he would meet Mr. Rao after January 6 in Hyderabad as he could not be in Delhi on December 25 and 26 as planned earlier.

Earlier, the TRS chief had planned to meet Mr. Yadav in New Delhi at the residence of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.(PTI)

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