HYDERABAD: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, along with his cabinet colleagues, and other lawmakers of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi will work as coolies to raise money to attend the party's plenary and formation day public meeting scheduled to be held later this month. KCR declared 14 to 20 April as 'Gulabi Coolie Days'.
The CM urged every party workers to work for at least two days to earn the money to meet transportation and other costs. The TRS will hold its plenary at Kompally near Hyderabad on 21 April while a massive public meeting is being planned at Warangal on 27 April to mark TRS' formation day. KCR said the party had 5100,000 members when the government was formed in 2014 and the number has now gone up to over 7500,000. TRS is expected to get £2.5 million as membership fee.
Provoking a controversy, KCR announced that the state government would follow Tamil Nadu model in implementing reservations for the state's Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribe and Backward Class population. In a cabinet meeting at Pragati Bhavan, he accepted the report prepared by State Backward Classes Commission on the socio-economic conditions of Muslims, and another report to increase quota for tribal population. KCR also announced that the hike in reservation for minorities would be done like it was done by Tamil Nadu and if the Centre does not respond positively, he will move the Supreme Court.
