Telangana sources stated that an official statement said that Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will meet his Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik in the first week of May to explore the feasibility of forming a non-BJP, non-Congress front before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Media reports the
meeting between Rao, who heads Telangana's ruling party TRS, and Patnaik, the
BJD chief, would take place in Bhubaneshwar. Meanwhile when owing to the Odisha
assembly currently being in session, it has been decided to hold consultations
in next month. The release said in his bid to cobble together a front of like-minded
non-BJP and non-Congress parties, Rao had met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee in Kolkata last month.
Moreover he had also
held consultations with former prime minister and JD(S) boss H D Deve Gowda as
per his plans to forge an alternative front. Previously Banerjee had held
consultations with NCP leader Sharad Pawar and Sanjay Raut, a Rajya Sabha MP of
the BJP's estranged ally Shiv Sena, to discuss ways to forge an anti-BJP front
at the national level.
