Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao met his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on Monday, 19 March, and discussed the formation of a federal front to take on the BJP and the Congress in the 2019 General Election.
Talking to reporters after a meeting at the State Secretariat, Rao, the chief of Telangana Rashtra Samithi, said that the country needed an alternative agenda and an alternative political force.
The country needs something good... What will happen if the BJP goes and the Congress comes? Will it do any wonders? We are in talks with like-minded parties.Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao
He said that this was the beginning of the federal front which would be a people's front.
People are thinking before 2019 there will be another front. Let me clarify that this front will be for people of India. This won’t be a mere alliance of a few political parties, this will be for the people. There is a need for alternate force.Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao
Mamata Banerjee responded saying, “Politics throws at you situations where you have to work with different people. I believe in politics.”
Rao had recently said a non-Congress and non-BJP front should be formed in the country, as he called for a "qualitative change" in politics.
(With inputs from PTI and ANI)
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