BRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K.Chandrashekar Rao said that BRS was not keen on joining any “front” for the Lok Sabha elections since earlier experiments like the National Front and United Front had failed.He stated that the BRS was ready to work with any party, which supported its agenda.
“Our agenda is simple.We want to bring structural reforms in all sectors.We want to bring qualitative change in India.We want to bring better water, power, irrigation, infrastructure and education policies.We will release our agenda.
We will welcome any party which supports our agenda and wants to work with us,” Rao said while addressing a press conference at Nagpur on Thursday.
The Telangana Chief Minister also called Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a “good friend”.Replying to a question at a media conference after addressing a public meeting in Nagpur in Maharashtra, the chief minister, popularly called KCR, said: “Modi achche mitr hai” (Modi is a good friend).
Rao’s comments assume significance in the backdrop of attempts by JDU supremo and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar making efforts to bring non-BJP parties together to defeat the BJP-led NDA in the 2024 polls.
The chief minister’s political demarche, comes amidst a cooling off of tensions between the BRS and the BJP, and his recent restrain over training guns at the saffron party in his public meetings.His comment that “Modi is a good friend” also suggested the formation of different patterns in the political kaleidoscope in the Assembly elections in Telangana in December this year, and the general elections in 2024.
With his one statement, KCR let the speculation mill work overtime that he was going to help the BJP in the general elections, by deciding to contest outside Telangana as well.
When media personnel asked Rao about the possibility of the BRS joining hands with the MVA (Maha Vikas Aghadi) comprising the Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena (UBT) in Maharashtra, he said that he had no such plans as of now.
