‘We are looking to form alliance in Telangana’

With Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announcing early state elections, the Congress has started talks with other opposition parties, mainly the Telugu Desam Party, to form an alliance to take on Rao’s Telangaga Rashtra Samithi. Rama Chandra Khuntia, Congress general secretary in-charge of Telangana , in an interview to

said the Telangana alliance will be part of the “overall strategy to form a grand alliance at the national level”. Edited excerpts:

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of the population and also the response the Telangana Congress party is getting for its bus yatra. Secondly, he may have thought the opposition parties were not prepared for early polls in terms of resources, unlike the TRS which has all its money and muscle power ready. Finally, he thought he would surprise us by announcing early polls. lapse of the administration or political instability due to slender majority. There is no such situation here in Telangana. It is obvious that Rao is afraid of Opposition unity and Congress’s growing popularity. We are fully prepared. We have formed committees from booth level to state level, except in some areas. We have come out with a manifesto to tell people what we will do if we come to power. with a list by the month’s end. The Congress party has been trying to bring all the non-bjp parties together across the country with an objective of bringing down Modi from power. As part of the overall strategy, it is also looking for alliances in the states to prevent BJP and its allies from coming to power. In Telangana, we strongly believe that KCR is a puppet of Modi. That is precisely why we are looking forward to forging an alliance with like-minded parties like the TDP, the CPI, Telangana Jana Samithi etc.