KCR Meeting with Modi: Pending Issues Discussed

New Delhi, June 15: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and discussed various issues related to the state.

During the hour-long meeting, the Chief Minister brought to the notice of the Prime Minister various demands pending with the Centre since the formation of the state four years ago.

He took up with Modi issues like separate High Court for Telangana, central funds for Kaleshwaram project, speeding up railway projects, allocation of defence land for building new state secretariat, release of funds for backward districts and Information Technology and Investment Region (ITIR), sanction of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and setting up of Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Karimnagar.

This was Rao's first meeting with Modi since the former floated the idea of a federal front as an alternative to both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress.

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief has met leaders of various regional parties in the past few months to mobilize support for the proposed front.