We will unite all regional parties, says TRS chief

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who is on a mission to form a non-BJP non-Congress alternative, today said he would unite all regional parties in coming months to bring about "a qualitative change" in the country.

"The way we created an earthquake and persuaded the country"s political system and realised Telangana state; in a similar way, we will unite the country, move like a bird and unite all regional parties in the coming two-three months to bring about a qualitative change in the country," he said.

He was speaking at the 17th formation day Pleanary of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi here.

A resolution was passed unanimously at the Plenary authorising Rao to take appropriate decisions on forming the proposed federal front.

Rao, who has recently met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda as part of his move, said he would meet DMK working president M K Stalin on April 29.

Stalin had two days ago "endorsed" Banerjee's efforts to bring together various parties against the BJP.

Rao said Samajwadi Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav would come to Hyderabad to meet him on May 2.

"We are speaking to many others," he added.

In a sharp attack on the Congress and BJP, he said the two parties must explain why the country remained backward on various fronts as two parties had ruled the country for most of the period since independence.

He said nature or God had given the country 70,000 TMC of water, yet neither the farmer gets water for irrigation nor drinking water was available.

Sarcastically asking who gave this 'gift', he said "the Prime Minister of the day (Narendra Modi), also former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the presidents of the two national parties, Amit Shahji and Rahul Gandhiji, should answer this. Seventy years have passed and you have run government. Both of you ruled for 65 years."