Akhilesh were invited to lunch by KCR, for non-Congress parties to band together to challenge the BJP were the main topics of discussion.
Mumbai: K Chandrasekhar Rao, the chief minister of Telangana, met with Akhilesh Yadav, the leader of the Samajwadi Party, on Friday as part of his efforts to bring together non-BJP, non-Congress parties before the general elections in 2024. According to SP sources, the party was also in favour of non-BJP and non-Congress parties uniting.
Despite being a significant participant in meetings of the Opposition, the SP will not form a political or electoral coalition with the Congress, according to party insiders. “Our stance is obvious. We support the emergence of a non-BJP, non-Congress unity. The TRS has our support. We don’t want to be associated with the Congress. According to the situation that develops after the elections, we will make a decision, an SP leader said.
Ram Gopal Yadav and Akhilesh were invited to lunch by Rao, who had been camping in Delhi for the previous three to four days. The political environment and the necessity for non-Congress parties to band together to challenge the BJP were the main topics of discussion, according to sources in the TRS.
In the first week of August, Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, is most likely to visit Delhi. A gathering of the non-Congress Opposition parties during her visit, according to sources, cannot be completely ruled out.
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Rao wants to serve the country, but that is easier said than done. His first priority is to halt the BJP in Telangana, where Assembly elections are scheduled until the end of next year.
Although the TRS had won a two-third majority in 2018, the BJP is sensing an opportunity to expand its footprint within the state.
In the 2019 election, the BJP had won four of Telangana’s 17 Lok Sabha seats – Secunderabad, Karimnagar, Nizamabad and Adilabad. “The BJP is aggressively trying to expand its base and Rao wants to send a message that only he can stop the BJP in Telangana,” a Congress leader said.
Over the past few months, Rao – more popular as KCR – has met JD(S) chief Deve Gowda, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, DMK’s M K Stalin, JMM leaders Shibu and Hemant Soren, Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray and RJD’s Tejaswi Prasad Yadav. Earlier, he had met Mamta and Left leaders Sitaram Yechury, Pinarayi Vijayan, Manik Sarkar and D Raja, among others.
Incidentally, Rao didn’t have any political meetings within the past three days. He held several meetings together with his party MPs but was closeted with bureaucrats most of the time reviewing various projects which require central clearance and release of pending funds from the Centre.
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