Red carpet welcome awaits Akhilesh

​Hyderabad: Next in line for Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to meet will be former chief minister of UP Akhilesh Yadav who will be arriving in Hyderabad on Wednesday. The two leaders will discuss the broad contours of the political alternative that KCR is visualising - Federal Front -  which is essentially meant to challenge the Congress and the BJP.    

Already KCR has laid ground for the formation of the front with a unique agenda that calls for according primacy to irrigation facility to parched lands in all the six lakh villages in the country, ushering in cooperative federalism in true sense of the word, effecting larger allocations of funds for the states and finally proclaiming an end to Centre’s domination over the states.

Akhilesh will arrive in Hyderabad by a special flight on Wednesday morning. He will be accorded a grand reception at Begumpet airport. Telangana Animal Husbandry Minister T Srinivas Yadav has been entrusted with the responsibility of overseeing the preparations to welcome the SP leader.

According to the top honchos of the TRS, KCR at his meeting with Akhilesh Yadav at Pragati Bhavan here will make a power point presentation on how India had suffered under the Congress and the BJP rulers and compare it with the growth in China during the last seven decades.

"KCR does not speak without doing his homework. He has made an in-depth study of how development has taken a back-seat in India. We are sure that the Chief Minister would be able to convince Akhilesh on the need for a political alternative which comprises chiefly regional parties," said a TRS leader.

KCR has set the ball rolling to stitch together a coalition by first meeting his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee and followed it up with his meeting with JD(S) patriarch HD Deve Gowda. He called on DMK president M Karunanidhi very recently and later discussed national political issues and the reforms that need to be brought in with party working president MK Stalin.