KCR would soon release an agenda for the proposed political front

The emergence of Janata Dal (Secular) as the party that will lead the government in Karnataka, appears to have validated the need for regional parties taking charge of how politics is practised in the country.

Chief Minister and TRS president K Chandrashekhar Rao has been advocating a new political front whose foundations lie in bringing a qualitative change in the way politics is practised in the country. His views on the subject include a major role for regional parties in this process which will see the emergence of a new political front as the alternative political force to the BJP and the Congress in the country.

The emergence of JD(S) in Karnataka in taking the lead to form a new government may be viewed as a beginning in this direction. Interestingly, Chandrashekhar Rao had only recently visited Bengaluru where he discussed his ideas in detail with JD(S) supremo and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda as well as HD Kumaraswamy, the party’s State unit president.

Reports from Bengaluru on Saturday said Kumaraswamy, set to take oath as Chief Minister on Monday, has extended an invitation to Chandrashekhar Rao, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and several other regional leaders to the ceremony. Banerjee had also tweeted on Saturday her congratulations to Kumaraswamy saying “democracy wins. Congratulations Karnataka. Congratulations DeveGowda Ji, Kumaraswamy Ji, Congress and others. Victory of the ‘regional’ front.”

Chandrashekhar Rao had previously met and discussed his ideas on reforming politics in the country with former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav who had called on him here in the city as did former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. The Telangana Chief Minister had also met Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata and DMK president M Karunanidhi and its working president MK Stalin in Chennai.

The Telangana Chief Minister had also said that he would soon release an agenda for the proposed political front, an agenda that will put people first. He has already made his views clear on how the front will ensure that farmers of the country get primacy and be provided with irrigation facility for every acre of farmland in the country. In addition, Chandrashekhar Rao had also been stressing on how India had been lagging in critical infrastructure; a situation, which he had said, had severely hobbled the country’s development and emergence as an economic superpower.