AKILESH TO MEET CHANDRASEKHAR RAO TODAY

HYDERABAD: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav will meet Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao here on Wednesday as part of the latter’s plans to forge a non-Congress, non-BJP alternative at the national level.

Rao had recently met his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi and the party working president M K Stalin.

On April 29 Rao had held discussions with Stalin at Chennai on a wide range of issues, including more autonomy to states.