Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) has purportedly set in motion his plan to field a non-BJP, non-Congress prime ministerial candidate from south India, on the lines of the "1996-formula", sources in the know said.
NDTV quoted sources as saying that KCR had discussed the idea with his Kerala counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday, 6 May, in a meeting that had praised eyebrows within the political circles.
The “1996 formula” is a reference to political equations in the 1990s, that saw three prime ministers take charge at the head of complex (and unstable) coalitions.