While no election is due in the area, Nanded has a chunk of the Telugu-speaking population. Earlier, some villages in the area had demanded that they be allowed to merge with Telangana in view of the schemes in the neighbouring state.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who has renamed his party from Telangana Rashtriya Samithi to Bharat Rashtriya Samithi eying national ambitions, started the journey today with a rally across the border in Maharashtra’s Nanded and an appeal to farmers, reported NDTV.Ā
While no election is due in the area, Nanded has a chunk of the Telugu-speaking population. Earlier, some villages in the area had demanded that they be allowed to merge with Telangana in view of the schemes in the neighbouring state.
The relaunched Bharat Rashtra Samithi, to be considered a national entity, must be recognised as a state party in at least four states or win six per cent of the votes in any four states and four Lok Sabha seats. Else it has to win two per cent of Lok Sabha seats (11 seats) in at least three states.
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Declaring that he plans to contest all electoral contests in Maharashtra, Mr Rao said 75 years after Independence, it was time for farmers to take the reins of the nation.
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