New Delhi:The results of the ongoing Assembly elections are bound to have a strong influence on the future of the national politics. While a frail Congress may still try to portray itself as THE opposition to the saffron party in the country, it is the political winds in Bengal, Telangana and Maharashtra that BJP fears of turning into a sandstorm.
Telangana Chief Minister Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao is putting all efforts to become the eye of that storm he intends to bring to Delhi way before the 2024 general elections. While KCR has been slamming the Narendra Modi-led government even more vehemently in the recent past, it is his attempts to cobble up a front to fight the saffron party that has infused new life into the otherwise banal political equations in the country.
It is speculated that KCR targets the upcoming Presidential elections 2022 and wants to project Janata Dal (United) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as the president candidate. Insiders in TRS say that KCR plans to unite all the opposition parties ahead of the President of India elections scheduled in July this year. This, insiders say, would be a first step towards preparing ground for 2024 Lok Sabha polls. While Nitish has his B(JP)aggage to shed, his name, sources say, came up during the February 20 meeting KCR held with Maharashtra CM Uddav Thakeray in the country's financial capital.
KCR also met NCP chief Sharad Pawar during his Mumbai visit in which the latter stressed the need for all "like-minded" parties to join hands to resolve various issues like hunger, poverty, unemployment and the agrarian crisis facing the country.
It seems that after seeing Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's thumping victory against the BJP in the last Assembly elections in the State, the regional parties have started to believe that by opposing Narendra Modi's government in unison, the BJP can be defeated.