KCR warms up for Federal Front

​Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is likely to form a committee with senior party leaders who could speak Hindi and English fluently and talk to different party leaders at national level to take forward agenda of the Federal Front proposed by the TRS chief.

According to party sources, the Chief Minister has decided to form a committee with senior leaders, whose main job would be to travel to different States and talk to different political party leaders other than the Congress and BJP to explain them the agenda of the Federal Front proposed by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao. The committee would be touring to different States after the plenary of the party scheduled on April 27.

Sources said that MP K Keshav Rao is likely to head the committee and there would be members including K Yadava Reddy and P Rajeshwar Reddy. It is said that Nizamabad MP K Kavitha would also be the part of the committee, which would talk to different party leaders.

The Chief Minister has already initiated talks with leaders at national level explaining them the need for a qualitative change in the lives of the people. The Chief Minister had visited West Bengal and also met the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and both had discussed on Federal Front. 

It was said that Keshav Rao had played crucial role in the meeting of both the leaders. Keshava Rao is learnt to have met Biju Janata Dal leaders including Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and held discussions. The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha founder Shibu Soren’s son Hemanth Soren had also met Chief Minister KCR and pledged his support.

According to the sources, the Chief Minister had taken soft stand on CPM so that it could become a cog in Federal Front's wheel. Recently, when senior leaders of CPM including BV Raghavulu and Thammineni Veerabhadram met the CM for allotment of a venue for their national conference, they had appreciated Chandrashekar Rao's initiative though they were a little evasive over alliances. 

But the TRS source say, in the end game, the CPM would become part of the Federal Front. Kerala Chief Minister P Vijayan is likely to meet KCR when he would visit Hyderabad for the CPM's national conference later this month.

Nizamabad MP K Kavitha too met DMK leader M Kanimozhi recently and discussed the plan of the TRS chief. The DMK leader however said that the party would take a stand at appropriate time.

The committee which KCR has constituted is expected to travel and talk to parties including Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Indian National Lok Dal and other parties before organising a massive public meeting of the party in October-November this year.