TRS to once again reach out to regional parties to forge unity

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: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao would once again reach out to regional parties to forge unity among them and promoting the idea of a non-Congress, non-BJP federal front, a key party leader said Monday.

"After formation of the government (in Telangana), the TRS will once again broach the concept of a federal front to all regional parties", the deputy floor leader of the party in the Lok Sabha B Vinod Kumar told PTI.

"There is no need for us regional parties to align either with the Congress or with the BJP...That concept, that idea we will try to sell", added the Karimnagar Lok Sabha member.

He made the comments when asked for TRS view on the opposition meet in Delhi to forge a united front to fight the BJP in the 2019 polls.

"This idea (non-Congress, non-BJP front) we will sell in the coming days to these parties which attended today's meeting also", Vinod Kumar said.

Rao had a few months ago met Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee, DMK President M K Stalin and JDS supremo H D Devegowda to promote the idea, but critics said the caretaker Telangana Chief Minister had not made much headway in his efforts.

"It's very to hard to sell this idea, we know it", Vinod Kumar said and claimed that the TRS convinced Stalin about the concept, while Devegowda was of the same opionion.

He alleged that both the Congress and BJP have a "big brother attitude" and have a feeling that all regional parties would have to "inevitably align" with them.

"All regional political parties should have a system of functioning with the so called national political parties", Vinod Kumar added.