 He participated in many debates, seminars and round table meetings on the backwardness of the Telangana region vis-a-vis Coastal Andhra.Along with K. Chandrashekar Rao, he was a founding member of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party which was launched on 27 April 2001 with the sole agenda of forming a separate Telangana state with Hyderabad as capital.Since then he began playing a key role in the TRS party and the Telangana movement.