On one hand, the BJP is conducting its national executive meetings, on the other hand, the regional parties are getting closer and fighting them unitedly. In the middle of all of this, KCR has been making steps sometimes forward, sometimes backward about setting up the National party. With all these developments, more suspicions are coming into the picture like who will be leading the united front of the opposition parties. Is it KCR? or is it Mamata Banerjee? This has just become a hot topic in political circles. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee phoned Telangana CM KCR. He was invited to attend a meeting of the opposition parties in Delhi on May 15. Mamata Banerjee sent letters to almost 22 national leaders in the country to attend the meeting. The meeting is expected to focus on the presidential election. However, what step KCR will take in this matter has now become a topic of discussion.
At the national level, there are rumors that KCR will soon form a new party under the name Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi- BRS. At a time like this, the Chief Minister of Bengal asking him to come to the meeting took precedence.
This is because Mamata Banerjee has always been trying to unite the opposition parties. She also met with KCR on various occasions. But even if the two have the same goal, the paths are different and the ideas are different. KCR is trying hard to form the first opposition national party and claim to be an alternative to the BJP. Will he stand behind Mamata in such circumstances? This has become intriguing.
KCR argues that the failure of Congress to become an opposition party has created a situation for the people of the country to form an alternative political party. He hopes that the BJP will learn a lesson from the defeat of the NDA candidate by uniting the various parties to use the presidential election as a platform for shaping an alternative national force. There is talk that the KCR National Party announcement will be made before the BJP National Working Committee meetings are being held in Hyderabad. Analysts are raising doubts over the invitation of KCR to the Mamata Banerjee meeting, which is looking to play a bigger role in the run-up to the state elections.
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TMC is a partner party in the UPA alliance. It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post. If Sonia stays focused, she might be able to curb Mamata’s aggression. Moreover, the million-dollar question is how many regional parties will join the non-Congress alliance. In the states where two or three parties have formed a government, we have been seeing rifts, collapse, and swearing in the government for years. We are watching what is happening in Karnataka and what is happening in Maharashtra. Without Congress, would Mamata be able to bring the regional parties on the same platform? Is KCR in that group? Analysts say that is questionable. Because they see that KCR wants everything going on under his leadership and not behind Mamata’s lead. They are predicting that it will be difficult for the KCR alliance to stand without Congress.
