Need to prepare an agenda for national development: Rao
chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who has announced plans to forge a non-Congress, non-BJP alternative at the Centre, says there is a need to prepare a national agenda keeping in mind the needs of all the other states.
He held a meeting with senior officials and retired bureaucrats “on the preparation of a national agenda for development and the viability of the existing methods, their good and bad aspects”, a release from his office said Friday night. “...the development for the past 70 years has not been on the lines as people expected.”
The CM said that several states have unsettled water disputes; several reforms suggested by experts in Centre-state relations have not been complied with. “The true federal spirit has not been reflected. Under these circumstances, there is a need for preparing an agenda for the national development,” he said.
Rao’s plans for an alternative has received support from West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and others, officials had said.
HYDERABAD:Telangana
The BJP is trying to maintain a working relationship with its allies in various states. Bond: One of the oldest allies of the BJP. The SAD has a grip over the rural areas of Punjab, while the BJP is big in urban centres. They share common views on several strategic issues.
The alliance won 6 out of 13 Lok Sabha seats in 2014
Fissures: The SAD is uneasy with the new order of the BJP, which reluctantly accepted the junior partner’s status. It is unhappy how the coalition is being managed by the BJP. It expected the get the NDA convener’s post after the JD(U) walked out of NDA in 2013. Bond: The alliance with BJP is part of the outreach by PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah towards other backward communities of Bihar. The BJP-LJP-RLSP alliance won 31 out of 40 Lok Sabha seats in 2014 Fissures: RLSP chief and junior HRD minister Upendra Kushwaha is not comfortable with BJP’s pact with Nitish Kumar, a fellow Kurmi leader from Bihar. The RJD joined a human chain programme by RLSP in Patna in January. Bond: Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar united in July 2017, three years after the JD(U) leader walked out of the NDA. The two have developed a personal bond over the last one year. Nitish was one of the main opposition leaders to support demonetisation
Fissures: The two parties are putting up a united face after government formation in Bihar, but distribution of seats in 2019 LS election will be difficult. JD(U) was NDA’s big brother in Bihar during its earlier stint, but now has only 2 Lok Sabha MPs as compared to BJP’s 22.