A file photo of Telangana chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao. Photo: APHyderabad/Kolkata: Taking his initiative of forming a non-Congress and non-BJP (Bhartiya Janata Party) front forward, Telangana chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will reach Kolkata to meet his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee on Monday. A day later, he claimed that Trinamool Congress chief Banerjee and former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren had also welcomed his decision to play a key role in national politics. Clearly, Banerjee cannot ally with the BJP though the TMC has in the past been part of the NDA. So she remains important to all political forces opposed to the BJP, irrespective of their stand on the Congress.

Source: Mint March 19, 2018 06:00 UTC