Telangana CM Chandrasekhar Rao intensifies efforts to forge an alternative to BJP with regional parties
The Hindu
The Chief Minister of Telangana is reported to have dropped indications to this effect during his meeting with his Tamil Nadu counterpart M. K. Stalin in Chennai.
Telangana Rashtra Samiti president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao is planning to visit non-BJP ruled States to bring together regional parties as part of efforts to form an alternative to the BJP at the national level.
The Chief Minister is reported to have dropped indications to this effect during his meeting with his Tamil Nadu counterpart M. K. Stalin in Chennai on Tuesday. Though the meeting was described as a courtesy call, the two Chief Ministers are understood to have discussed about the political situation at the national level and the manner in which the BJP government was trying to usurp the rights of the States through its policies.
The two leaders had already expressed their objections to the policies adopted by the BJP-led NDA government asserting that they are detrimental to the interests of the States. The Tamil Nadu government is at loggerheads with the Centre on the issues relating to NEET while the Telangana government upped the ante against the BJP for its non-committal attitude on procurement of rice.