TRS president K Chandrashekhar Rao said that his party would intensify the struggle for achieving the goal and work to emerge as a major political force. He said he had even offered to merge TRS with Congress if the latter accepts its demand for statehood.

The TRS chief had camped in New Delhi recently and held talks with senior Congress leaders like Vayalar Ravi over the Telangana issue. He had given a lucrative offer to Congress to sacrifice his party. He further said there cannot be a bigger offer than this. But now there would not be any ties with Congress in future, he told reporters here this evening after a two day party conclave.

Before leaving for Delhi, he had expressed confidence that a separate Telangana would be formed in the near future. He said TRS would not enter into alliance with any party for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and claimed it would emerge as a formidable political force so that it can set its own terms in the present era of coalitions and secure separate statehood.

TRS will organise Deeksha Diwas on November 29 at all district headquarters in Telangana to press for its demand for statehood in which a large number of partymen would participate.