HYDERABAD: Former minister and Secunderabad cantonment MLA P Shankar Rao said he would construct a temple for Congress president Sonia Gandhi in his constituency for announcing separate state of Telangana .

Speaking to the media at the Congress Legislature party office here on Tuesday, Rao said this was the right way of expressing gratitude for conceding the demand for separate Telangana state.

"I will lay the foundation stone for the temple of Sonia Gandhi in Secunderabad on December 9, 2013 (Sonia's birthday)," he said.

He also called upon all the MLAs from Telangana to build temples in every constituency of the region as a gesture of gratitude to the Congress chief.

Referring to CM N Kiran Kumar Reddy's Rachabanda program in Telangana, the former minister said Kiran Kumar had no right to tour the Telangana districts after opposing the creation of separate T state.

