Hyderabad, Dec 01st: Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders have demanded the unconditional withdrawal of all cases against their president K. Chandrasekhar Rao who is on an ‘indefinite fast’ and his immediate release from Khammam jail. TRS floor leader Etala Rajender and former MP B. Vinod met Chief Minister K. Rosaiah in the Secretariat on Tuesday evening and demanded KCR’s release or at least his immediate shifting to Cherlapally jail in the city.

Addressing media persons, Mr. Rajender said that the Chief Minister agreed to consider their demand but advised them to get in touch with the police intelligence chief. The TRS leader said the party would chalk out further action, including a dharna in front of the Chief Minister’s residence, if the government did not respond positively to the demand. He justified the demand on the ground that there was a threat to KCR’s life besides the poor facilities in Khammam sub-jail. He alleged that the police had conspired to break KCR’s fast right from the time they arrested him. In jail, KCR was totally at the mercy of Greyhounds personnel and not a single policeman from Telangana was posted near him.

Separately, at a press conference, party leaders A. Chandrasekhar and Yadagiri Reddy accused the State government of carrying out a misinformation campaign that KCR had ended his fast by circulating video CDs to the media showing clippings of KCR taking juice. But the fact was that the doctors had given him colored water while administering a tablet after forcibly injecting I.V. fluids, they said.