New Delhi: Amid debate of conducting early elections, Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said he would take a call soon on the dissolution of the state assembly for early elections in the state. The elections are due in April-May next year.

“All my party leaders, including my cabinet colleagues and MLAs, have authorised me to take a decision on the assembly dissolution, which everybody is waiting for anxiously. I will take an appropriate decision soon and come before you,” Rao told a public meeting at Kongara Kalan village near Hyderabad.

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president asked the people to vote his party back to power for the second term to enable him continue “the good work” he had done over the last four years.

Rao separately chaired a cabinet meeting at his camp office without taking a decision on the dissolution. The cabinet approved some pending decisions and authorised Rao to take the call on early polls.

A communique from the chief minister’s office said the next cabinet meeting would be held shortly. Unconfirmed reports said it will be called on September 5 for Rao to take a formal decision on the dissolution.

At the rally, Rao recalled his journey from the TRS’s launch in 2001 for the ‘liberation’ of Telanagana from the Andhra rulers to the statehood for it in 2014. He said the people had blessed the TRS as they believe it was the only party, which reflected their aspirations.

“In the last four years and three months, Telangana has come a long way from being a state, which was exploited for decades, to becoming India’s richest state with tremendous annual economic growth rate of 17.2 per cent. We have the vision, commitment and planning,” he said.