After wresting Telangana, KCR chalks out strategy for a non-BJP, non-Congress front
Live MintHyderabad: Acting chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, who stormed back to power in Telangana, is drawing up a national strategy to bring together like-minded regional political parties and unions to press for an alternative to the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress at the centre. Rao has reached out to several parties in the past to try and build a momentum for a front, including former Prime Minister H.D. Rao’s siding with the Union government on a few of its controversial economic reforms, including the much-criticized demonetization, is seen by the Congress as a sign of the regional party’s proximity to the BJP. The hopes of the Congress to lead the anti-BJP wave of regional parties next year, has been bolstered by the results of the assembly elections in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.