Stitching alliances: KCR meets Uddhav Thackeray, Sharad Pawar in Mumbai

Tribune News Service

Mumbai/Hyderabad, February 20

Change is the need of the hour, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and his Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray said after the two leaders met here on Sunday as part of efforts to bring together like-minded parties against the BJP at the national level.

After a two-hour meeting at “Varsha”, the official residence of Maharashtra CM, the two leaders addressed a press conference where KCR said this was a “good beginning” and they would meet again after speaking to leaders of other regional and national parties.

“We discussed the political situation, development issues being faced by the country after 75 years of independence,” he said. Thackeray, in a veiled attack on the BJP, said the present day “politics of revenge” was neither Hindutva nor Indian culture, and that the situation needed to change.

KCR announced last week that he would be visiting Mumbai for a luncheon meeting with Thackeray on Sunday, and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is expected to visit Hyderabad to meet KCR for talks about forming a common front against the BJP further.

KCR has already announced that he would be playing a active role in forging such an alliance. Thackeray, who is also president of the Shiv Sena, recently spoke to KCR over the phone and invited him to Mumbai.

KCR also reportedly meet NCP president Sharad Pawar, whose party shares power with the Shiv Sena and Congress in Maharashtra.— /PTI

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