It appears Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s attempt to build an alternative political alliance to defeat Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre has no takers.
Almost all the leaders he had met so far – right from Stalin to Uddhav Thackeray to Hemant Soren, have not evinced much interest in forming the front without the Congress party, though they respected him and agreed with his view that there is a need to provide an alternative leadership for the country.
After the meeting he had with Hemanth Soren and his father Shibu Soren, founder of Jharkhand Mukthi Morcha (JMM), KCR was visibly frustrated as his call for forming a front of all regional parties did not get much response. In fact, Hemant Soren said KCR was a political person and the meeting should be seen in that direction.
That was why, the TRS chief told the reporters later that his efforts were not aimed at creating any “anti-BJP front, anti-Congress front, fourth front or third front.”
He once again repeated what he lectured at his press conference in Hyderabad a few days ago.
“Talks are going on with different leaders in the country. I want to say that 75 years since independence, development has not reached up to the mark it should have. We remain backward on many parameters. China has developed, as have other countries. And today the government running the country is not doing it properly,” he said.
KCR said his meeting was only about steering the country into a better direction.
“There is no anti-BJP front, anti-Congress front, fourth front or third front. When it happens, we shall give it a name,” he said, indicating that there is no concrete shape to his ideas.
