"Days have gone when people used to speculate that Telangana Rashtra Samithi would ultimately merge with the Congress party. Now the time has taken turn for the Congress to merge with the TRS," says TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao.

KCR, speaking at function held to welcome three Congress MLAs - Jupalli Krishna Rao, T Rajaiah and Somarapu Satyanarayana and hundreds of their supporters into the TRS fold, cautioned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson against testing the patience of Telangana people. He said Congress and all other political parties would soon lose their political livelihood in the region if they failed to respect public sentiment. "The Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi must remember that more MLAs are willing to join us, not only from Congress but other parties also. The day is not far away when the Congress will have to merge with TRS," warned the leader.

A jubilant KCR said "We will dictate terms to Delhi by winning all seats in the region. We forced the Centre to concede Telangana on Dec 9, 2009. In the future, they will have no choice but to abide by their earlier announcement on initiating the process of formation of Telangana state. We once again demand the PM and UPA chairperson to honour their word."