When he floated the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in 2001, the political circuit scoffed at him. Detractors made light of his ‘mission Telangana’ and were almost certain that his dream project would fall flat. Cut to May 16, 2014 and this adamant, individualistic Kalvakuntla Chandrasekhar Rao is all set to don the mantle of the first chief minister of Telangana, the 29th state of India. He has not only convincingly won from the Gajwel Assembly constituency in Medak district, by a margin of 19,391 votes over his TDP rival Pratap Reddy, but has pocketed the Medak Lok Sabha seat by a neat margin of 3,97,029 votes. Clearly, KCR has managed to silence all who doubted him and his objective – ...

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