After big win, KCR to launch ‘national party’

Naveen S Garewal

Tribune News Service

Hyderabad, December 11

After winning the Telangana Assembly poll with two-thirds majority, Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) today announced the formation of a new “national party with a consortium of regional outfits” —  a non-BJP, non-Congress federal front.

“Within the next 10 days, I will go to Delhi and announce the birth of a new national party. I have been in talks with many leaders, some of whom are at my residence as we talk to take this further,” he said.

Asked if he would continue to be the Chief Minister or hand over reins, he said, “I have not thought about it.”

Making it clear that he would be actively participating in national politics, he said, “There is a need for surgery; small injection will not set the plight of Indian economy and agriculture right. Telangana has shown the way. There is a need to replicate it.”

Asked if it was not too late to float a front just six months before the General Election, KCR said, “I have been working on it for a long time. The party we will float will have the participation of the people as direct stakeholders. The Constitution needs to be amended to make it practical. The concurrent list must go and the role of the Centre and the states must be clearly defined.”