Patna: Eyeing 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao will meet his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar in Patna on Wednesday to discover the opportunity of forming a non-BJP coalition of like-minded events to defeat the Narendra Modi-led NDA in the upcoming common elections. According to experiences, Rao, who can also be popularly often known as ‘KCR’, is scheduled to arrive in Patna on Wednesday morning and later distribute cheques of ex-gratia to relations of a dozen labourers who had been burnt alive in their sleep at Hyderabad the place they lived in a cramped higher storey of a congested constructing.
KCR, who heads the Telangana Rashtra Samiti, can also be tipped to play the nationalism card as he will probably be paying cheques of compensation to relations of troopers who had been killed in the stand-off with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley of Ladakh area.
Thereafter, the Telangana chief minister is anticipated to have a luncheon with Nitish Kumar, whose inventory in the anti-BJP camp has sky-rocketed since his path-breaking exit from the NDA earlier this month. “It will be a unity between the south and the north for defeating the BJP,” mentioned Neeraj Kumar, an MLC and chief spokesperson of JD(U), the social gathering to which the Bihar chief minister belongs.
“KCR is undoubtedly a prominent leader of the south and a key voice against the BJP. In Nitish Kumar, the opposition is seeing new hope. The meeting between the two leaders is bound to have national repercussions,” he mentioned.
RJD nationwide vp Shivanand Tiwary, whose social gathering has seamlessly developed from a staunch opponent to an ardent ally of the chief minister, concurred with the JD(U) chief’s views. “The meeting between KCR and Nitish is definitely important. Both leaders have a very important role to play in forging opposition unity. The exit of Nitish from NDA has been the biggest setback to the BJP in recent times,” he mentioned.
The longest-serving chief minister of Bihar, who’s the de facto chief of the JD(U), has for lengthy been fancied as a possible “secular” different to the charisma of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. While Tiwary, a veteran socialist who has been energetic in politics for 5 many years, mentioned it was “premature to talk about who will be the face of the opposition in 2024”, youthful leaders in his personal social gathering thought in any other case.
“The 2024 Lok Sabha polls will be a contest between Nitish Kumar and Narendra Modi. All parties in the opposition will agree on the name of Nitish Kumar,” mentioned RJD spokesperson Shakti Singh Yadav.
Another RJD spokesperson Mrityunjay Tiwari mentioned, “There is little doubt that Nitish Kumar will be hoisting the tricolour at the Red Fort when the country would be celebrating its Independence Day in 2024.”
The exuberance proven by the youthful lot in RJD is triggered in no small measure by their hopes that when Kumar is out to play a brand new inning in nationwide politics, it would be the flip of their chief Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, presently serving his second time period because the Deputy CM, to rule the state.
Meanwhile, the BJP, which is licking its wounds because the debacle in Bihar and is attempting to make itself rely in Telangana politics in a giant means, reacted with predictable queasiness. “The meeting between KCR and Nitish Kumar will be a “new comedy show” staged in the name of opposition unity,” mentioned senior BJP chief Sushil Kumar Modi in an announcement.
The former Bihar deputy CM additionally sought to draw a parallel between the Telangana CM and Lalu Prasad, the founding president of RJD, alleging that each shared a propensity for corruption and dynasty rule. “Lalu Prasad could not help his own daughter Misa Bharti win the Lok Sabha polls in 2019. Ditto for KCR and his daughter Kavitha,” added Modi, who’s attempting to take advantage of out of the present disaster in Bihar and pull himself out of political hibernation.
