HYDERABAD: The Telugu Desam, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and the two Left parties took a major leap forward in forging the much-talked about ‘grand alliance’ against the Congress party when they made a series of political overtures on Monday. While these leaders described an alliance as “a certainty”, for the record, they reserved a formal announcement about their future political plans to an appropriate day after Sankranti (January 14).
It was TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao who set the ball rolling by visiting the house of his TDP counterpart N. Chandrababu Naidu from where they proceeded to the Rashtrapati Nilayam at Bolarum to submit a memorandum against the Congress government to President Pratibha Patil, now on her southern sojourn here. Mr. Rao and Mr. Naidu were joined by CPI and CPI (M) State secretaries K. Narayana and B.V. Raghavulu respectively when they petitioned the President.
Mr. Naidu reciprocated Mr. Rao’s gesture by driving down to the latter’s house straight from Bolarum along with Mr. Narayana and Mr. Raghavulu at the TRS leader’s invitation for tea.
The four leaders travelled together in Mr. Naidu’s car to Mr. Rao’s house where they were received by enthusiastic supporters of TRS and TDP who raised slogans hailing the unity of the two parties.
The TRS leader told waiting journalists that though they were conscious of the speculation triggered by their meeting, they were not ready to make any formal announcement now.
They would hold discussions among themselves on how to take people into confidence about their unity and chalk out a programme for waging joint struggles.
After all, they had to be responsible when they articulated their stand to the public.
Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao said the four parties will work for the defeat of the Congress in the general elections by exposing its corruption and irregularities about which they had earlier informed the President.
Auspicious beginning
Mr. Naidu maintained that Monday’s meeting of the four parties was an auspicious beginning for their unity moves. It would herald joining of forces to defeat the corrupt Congress.
Mr. Raghavulu said the parties came together for tea but would end up creating a storm in the elections. The parties aimed to end the Congress rule. Mr. Narayana said they succeeded in bringing about clarity on the unity of the Opposition.
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