KCR to meet Mamata Banerjee today over federal front
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IBNS): With an aim to advance talks over the federal front at the Centre, Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will meet his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee here on Monday.
After registering a landslide victory in the Telangana Assembly elections recently, Rao is meeting a number of regional political leaders in a bid to form a non-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), non-Congress front at the national level.
Rao had already met Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata earlier this year to discuss the issue.
However, Mamata's take on the alternative to the BJP rule is somewhat different to that of Rao.
While Rao is in favour of a non-BJP, non-Congress front, Mamata was not so repulsive to the idea of including Congress in the united front to dethrone the saffron party from power.
The TMC supremo was also seen hobnobbing with Congress' present and former presidents, Rahul and Sonia Gandhi, particularly at the swearing-in ceremony of HD Kumaraswamy as the Karnataka chief minister.
In November, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu met Mamata over the united front.
Mamata is also eyeing to flaunt a united Opposition at a mega rally, which is scheduled to be held in Kolkata on Jan 19, 2019.
Rao, who is a strong antagonist of Naidu and the Congress, met Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday to discuss his proposed front.
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