Telangana: Telangana Chief Minister and TRS president, K Chandrashekar Rao is likely to assign a key role to actor-turned-politician Prakash Raj in the former's attempts to cobble up a national alliance against the BJP at the Centre. Interestingly, Raj had attended the meeting KCR recently had with Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray and NCP chief Sharad Pawar in Mumbai.
Raj, who had unsuccessfully contested as an independent from Bengaluru central Lok Sabha seat in the 2019 General elections and lost to PC Mohan of the BJP, is a known voice against the BJP. Sources privy to the latest developments in Telangana politics said that KCR is setting up a "new team" to play an active role in national politics.
“It seems that a committee is being formed with MPs, MLAs, and other leaders who are in charge of political and other issues. He (KCR) signaled this during a visit to Mumbai on Sunday. There is a discussion in Telangana political circles that actor Prakash Raj, who made a sudden entry in the meeting, will be given a key position,” a source said.