Rahul Gandhi bhakt MK Stalin not to meet KCR
Deccan ChronicleChennai: A day after the DMK indicated that its president MK Stalin will meet Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekar Rao here on May 13, the party has now indicated the meeting will not happen. While the DMK is reluctant to provide further details on why the all-important meeting was called off, other sources insisted that Stalin had initially agreed to meet KCR when he was told it would be “just a probing mission” for knowing the DMK chief’s mind on the post-May 23 national political scenario, but he has since chosen to skip the session on learning that the Telangana CM is “pretty serious” about forging a Federal Front that would attempt forming a non-Congress/non-BJP Government at the Centre. The DMK chief was told that meeting KCR would most certainly send out the signal that he has now lost confidence in Congress president. He had taken a huge risk in proposing Rahul as PM of the Opposition Front and took some hard criticism when his idea did not go well with other senior politicians such as SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and WB CM Mamata Banerjee.” He would like to measure his strides carefully now in this critical political phase", said a source, while pointing out that KCR enjoys "good rapport" with Stalin and was treated to warmly when he visited the DMK chief's house in April last year for lunch.