TRS hits out at PM Modi over inadequate efforts to empower states

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi alleged Wednesday Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not done enough to empower States and is paying only lip-service to federalism.

The TRS would play a "very vital role in Delhi, and should be able to influence Delhi to the extent that states will get more powers," party leader K T Rama Rao, son of TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), said.

Noting that Modi was earlier Chief Minister of Gujarat for three terms, he said: "We would have believed, we would have hoped that he being former Chief Minister himself would have empowered states much much more because stronger the states, stronger the country; that's true federalism; can't just be federalism for lip-service."