KCR not inclined for tie-up with CPI for polls

After having ditched the Congress, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti may dump the Communist Party of India as well to go it alone in the ensuing elections to Lok Sabha and state Assembly.
Nothing is final as yet because the TRS politburo is said to be strongly advocating the need for a tie-up with the Congress and/or the CPI to emerge as a formidable combination in Telangana.
"We have suggested that we have an alliance with the CPI, if not the Congress. But he (TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao) is not ready to heed (our advice)," a party's politburo member and former MP said.

With the Congress and the CPI alignment looking certain in Telangana, KCR is said to be disinclined to join forces with the Left party either, as he is "totally averse" to be close to the former.
The TRS may take a final call on alliances at its politburo meeting slated for next week, he added.
It was the TRS that proposed to ally with the CPI, which has also strongly supported the statehood cause, and the latter too responded positively.

The CPI, though, wanted the Congress also as a partner in the alliance but TRS shut its doors on the ruling party.

It continued its negotiations separately with both the parties over possible seat-sharing and almost clinched the deal with the Congress even as the TRS left it high and dry.
The CPI will get the Bhuvanagiri Lok Sabha seat and 10 Assembly seats in Telangana from Congress as part of alliance though the former sought two Lok Sabha and 17 Assembly seats.
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president Ponnala Lakshmaiah will discuss the seat-sharing arrangement (with CPI) with the party's high command in New Delhi tomorrow before an official announcement is made.
CPI's national general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy will stand from Bhuvanagiri.

With the CPI joining hands with the Congress, the CPM is now seeking to ally with YSR Congress in some parts of Telangana.
Already, the CPM and the YSRC have started working together in Khammam district where TRS has little influence.
The two may spread their camaraderie to other districts in the region as well, and details in this regard are being worked out, sources said.