Amid Telangana Prime Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s attempt to form an anti-BJP front, Telangana Congress President A Revanth Reddy accused the TRS chief of conspiring to use the breakup of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) to help Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Reddy said leaders like Mamata Banerjee, Uddhav Thackeray and MK Stalin were part of the UPA and the KCR was trying to break the alliance.
“CM KCR has no plans to ally with Narendra Modi. It is all wrong. He is trying to help PM Modi. Leaders like Stalin, Mamata Banerjee, Udhaf Thackeray are Part of the UPA and the KCR is trying to break this alliance and try to help Modi. It is a conspiracy,” the TPCC chief said.
Rao met Maharashtra Prime Minister Uddhav Thackrey and National Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar in Mumbai on Sunday amid speculation of an opposition front outside Congress. But Shiv Sena and the NCP claim that Congress will be part of any coalition against the BJP in 2024.
Sena senior leader Sanjay Raut said past attempts to piece together a third front had not been successful.
“We never said there would be a front without Congress. When West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee first mentioned this (front without Congress), Shiv Sena was the first to say that Congress should join others party,” Raut told reporters in Nagpur.
Reddy accused the Telangana chief minister of weakening Congress and said if he really wanted to form a coalition, the KCR should go to the chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Delhi.
“He ran an AIMIM campaign and contest in Uttar Pradesh, so Samajwadi party lost the election and Yogi, BJP won. He took ‘supari’ from Modi and tried to weaken Congress,” Reddy claimed.
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