New Delhi: Telangana Chief Minister Ok. Chandrashekar Rao-led Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) social gathering won’t be a part of the united opposition alliance for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress’s Madhu Goud Yaskhi mentioned Tuesday.
The previous member of Parliament from Telangana, together with different state social gathering leaders, was addressing the media on the Congress headquarters in Delhi, following a “technique assembly” with the social gathering’s central management.
“Kharge ji [Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge] and Rahul ji [former party president Rahul Gandhi] mentioned there won’t be any alliances with TRS [Telangana Rashtra Samithi, now renamed the Bharat Rashtra Samithi] social gathering. TRS-BRS social gathering aren’t going to be a part of the nationwide opposition alliance,” mentioned Yaskhi.
Leaders of 15 events — together with the Congress, the Trinamool Congress (TMC), the Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP), the Nationalist Congress Social gathering (NCP), the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Samajwadi Social gathering (SP) and others — met in Patna earlier this month, in what’s being seen as a possible starting to the formation of a united entrance of events in opposition to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) on the Centre.
The BRS was among the many events which skipped the assembly.
The Congress, which is in direct political rivalry with the BRS in Telangana, has additionally slammed the state’s ruling social gathering for its entry into Maharashtra forward of subsequent yr’s Lok Sabha and Maharashtra meeting elections.
In step with its bid to develop its footprint past Telangana, the BRS has been making aggressive efforts to construct a base in neighbouring Maharashtra. Involved in regards to the division in opposition votes, Congress leaders from Maharashtra have additionally accused the BRS of being the BJP’s “B-team”, serving to its prospects by dividing votes.
Yakshi too Tuesday accused the BRS of working with the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering. “BRS-TRS social gathering is working with BJP. BRS-BJP are nothing however one. Due to this fact there won’t be any alliance,” the previous MP mentioned.
In the meantime, the BRS too has criticised the opposition assembly in Patna.
“The struggle [against the BJP] ought to be on principal points earlier than the nation. Sadly, we’re dropping the plot there. We appear to be obsessed and frightened about dislodging somebody or placing any person there and that shouldn’t be the agenda. The agenda ought to be how the essential priorities of the nation must be met,” BRS working president Ok.T. Rama Rao was quoted as saying by the media Sunday.
He added: “You shouldn’t be uniting in opposition to any person. You need to be uniting for one thing. What’s that one thing, no person is ready to determine.”
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Tackling Telangana
In a “technique assembly” Tuesday, Kharge, Gandhi and Congress basic secretary (organisation) Ok.C. Venugopal, held discussions with the social gathering’s Telangana unit, led by state president Revanth Reddy.
The assembly got here a day after the Congress inducted in its fold 35 BRS leaders, together with former MP Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and ex-Telangana minister, Jupally Krishna Rao.
Social gathering leaders from Telangana instructed the media that the assembly was known as to debate the upcoming meeting elections within the state, scheduled to be held in December this yr.
“Rahul ji has instructed us to prepare for elections. He instructed us to maintain inside variations apart and struggle unitedly,” the social gathering’s Telangana in-charge Manikrao Thakare mentioned.
Attacking the incumbent Telangana chief minister, Thakare added, “KCR in all of the states, like Maharashtra, is becoming a member of BJP. In Maharashtra, the place Congress is robust they’re making an attempt to assist BJP. They’re doing their programmes to harm the Congress social gathering and assist BJP”
Curiously, KCR had hosted an opposition rally in Telangana earlier this yr, which was attended by leaders together with Samajwadi Social gathering’s Akhilesh Yadav, AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann and Left leaders Pinarayi Vijayan and D. Raja.
(Edited by Poulomi Banerjee)
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