Results would enable TRS to play a crucial role in national

Buoyed by the emphatic victory in the Assembly elections, Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief K Chandrasekhar Rao Tuesday said the results would enable the TRS to play a crucial role in national politics.

He said a national party will emerge that will form a coalition with a consortium of regional parties to take on the BJP and Congress.

"...Congress-mukt Bharat..BJP-mukt Bharat...that is needed...we will unveil the whole thing in Delhi in 10 days," Rao told a press conference.

Raising the pitch for a 'non-BJP, non-Congress' federal front, the Telangana leader, who is set to take the state's reins for a second time, said there was need to strengthen the federal structure of the country keeping in mind the requirements of the states.

"The(proposed) federal front is for the people of this country, not for any individual. This is not aligning mere political parties. It is aligning the masses of India. The practice was usually to align certain leaders and certain parties, he said.

"That is rubbish and proved to be senseless. I think very soon a new national party may come with a consortium of regional parties (to take on the BJP and the Congress). This is a big announcement that I am making," he said in response to a question on his idea of floating a federal front.

Though he did not name the national party, India has seven recognised national parties--the BJP, Congress, BSP, CPI, CPI(M), the Nationalist Congress Party of Sharad Pawar and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's and All India Trinamool Congress.

Rao had met Banerjee a some time back to explore the possibility of floating a federal front.

Chiding the Congress and BJP, Rao said there was a necessity for a non-Congress non-BJP rule.

"In Today's results of assembly polls, Telangana has shown the way to the whole nation. Telangana stands (as) a non-Congress, non-BJP state," he said.

Hinting a role at the national level, Rao said he would give a "new definition" to the national political scenario.

Calling for new agriculture and economic model, he said India has a water resources base of 70,000 TMCft out of which only 30,000 TMCft is being put to use.

"The nation needs a new economic model. There is a need for revolution in the field of agriculture. There is a need for a surgery in the political system," he said.

According to him, it is enough to have Rs two or three lakh crore reserves with the Reserve Bank of India, instead of Rs eight to nine lakh crore.

Rao said there was a Supreme Court in every state in the US and wondered why a big country like India has only one.

He alleged that both the Congress and BJP were trying to wrest control over some of the state subjects.

Replying to a query on AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, Rao said the Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP was not a "fundamentalist" and described him as a "very good intellectual."
"He participated in each and every debate in parliament. ... I appreciate Asaduddin Owaisi becausehe is not a fundamentalist. He is a secular political leader. that is why we both discussed for three hours yesterday."