Telangana Assembly polls: KCR looks to spin success with fish, sheep

He borrowed ideas, invented a control and command structure for the TRS and decided to take a leaf out of the book of one of Andhra Pradesh's most charismatic leaders, NT Rama Rao

Telangana, India’s newest state, is on a roll. And, it’s all because of fish and sheep. The idea is so simple that it is laughable.  When he came to power on the back of a massive agitation led by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR), the new state’s first chief minister, decided he needed to start working to turn the TRS, a wartime party, into a peacetime party.

The movement had achieved its target and he needed to set new goals for those who had supported the party.