Bengaluru: After meeting with former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda today, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao announced that there would be “change at the national level” shortly and teased “sensational news” in a few months.
Mr Rao, also known as KCR, launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who assailed him on his home turf of Hyderabad today while he was away in Karnataka “There have been enough bhaashanbaazi (speeches) and promises, but the country’s position is deteriorating. The economy is in bad shape. Farmers, Dalits, and tribals are all dissatisfied.”
KCR has been engaging with opposition leaders around the country in an attempt to form a united front to challenge the BJP in the national election of 2024.
“I would like to say that I met Deve Gowda and HD Kumaraswamy, we discussed everything. There will be a change at the national level and no one can stop it. India will change…India must change. We should make every effort to change the state of the country,” KCR said.
“You will get sensational news after two-three months,” he added, not elaborating.
Earlier today, PM Modi targeted KCR in the Telangana capital using the word “parivarwaad (dynasty)” and said the struggle for a separate state was not for one family to rule.
“Parivarwaadi’ parties only think about their own development. These parties do not care about the poor people, their politics is focused on how a single-family can stay in power and loot as much as they can. They do not have any interest in the development of people,” PM Modi said while addressing party workers.
“We are celebrating the Amrut Mahotsava of 75 years of Independence but we suffer for power, drinking water, irrigation water. I can’t say who will come to power, but I can say that India has a glorious future,” said KCR in Hindi.
“The youth of the country, intellectuals and journalists have a duty to see that India changes.”
PM Modi arrived in Hyderabad just hours before KCR left for Bengaluru. The Chief Minister has skipped the Prime Minister’s visit for the second time in four months. When PM Modi presented the Statue of Equality, a massive statue of Saint Ramanujacharya, in February, KCR declined to meet with him, citing his health.
In his spree of opposition meetings, KCR recently met with Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
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