Nation wants new leadership: I may lead the alternative if need arises: KCR

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said that there was an urgent need for definitive change in the country since both the BJP and Congress party had failed in administering the country and driving it on the right path.

Releasing the party manifesto for GHMC elections, KCR said that it was time for a new political leadership to take the country on the path of rapid development. "I may be the one to lead the alternative to BJP and Congress if the need arises," he asserted.

"Moves have already been made to create a new political platform that would serve as an alternative to both BJP and Congress at the national level.

I am in touch with many leaders from regional parties, including Chief Ministers of several States, and have already shared my plan to have a conclave of all non-BJP party leaders in Hyderabad in the second week of December," he said, adding that everyone knows he was a stubborn person when it comes to achieving a goal as happened in the case of separate Statehood.

Rao said China had overcome all its problems and moved forward in terms of growth but India has not been able to do so because of the approach by the two national parties and the policies adopted by them. "I am not criticising any individual.

We need political leadership that creates wealth and distributes it to the people," the Chief Minister said.

He questioned the rationale behind selling stakes in Public Sector Undertakings and national organisations such as LIC and Railways, the Chief Minister said: "For whose benefit are BSNL or LIC or for that matter, the Railways being made a scapegoat?" Wondering why successive Central governments in the past failed to manage the affairs of these PSUs, the Chief Minister assured all support to employees and workers of Central PSUs (CPSU) in the latter's fight against

privatisation.