There cannot be a federal front without Cong: Veerappa Moily

There cannot be a federal front without the Congress being a part of it, senior party leader M Veerappa Moily said today even as he indicated that leadership of such an alliance is a matter of negotiation.

The former Union minister alleged that a non-BJP, non-Congress federal front, being promoted by Telangana Chief Minister and TRS supremo K ChandrasekharRao, is aimed at dividing the anti-BJP parties.

Moily said Rao's move for a federal front is "good and welcome" but all parties should be taken into confidence.

K Chandrashekhar Rao had recently said a non-Congress and non-BJP front should be formed in the country, and had called for a "qualitative change" in politics while announcing that he was ready to take on the mantle of leading a political front.

"There cannot be a federal front without the Congress. Bracketing the Congress along with the BJP will not help the purpose, nor help the national objective (to dethrone the BJP)," Moily told PTI.

Asked if such a federal front has to be led by the Congress, he said, "Leading and other things is matter of negotiation.. that is a different matter."