Telangana CM KCR meets Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav in Patna

Telangana Chief Minister Ok. Chandrashekhar Rao reached Patna on Wednesday and met his counterpart Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav.

At an occasion, Mr. Rao additionally pledged monetary help to the members of the family of 5 Galwan valley martyrs and 12 migrant employees who have been killed in a hearth accident in Hyderabad on March 23 this 12 months.

“We are citizens of two great rivers of the country Ganga and Godavari. Godavari is known as Ganga in South India. I wanted to visit Bihar earlier but couldn’t come due to lack of time,” he mentioned.

“Now, when got an invitation, I reached here to honour those martyrs and the workers killed in a fire accident in Hyderabad,” mentioned Mr. Rao through the programme.

Nitish praises KCR

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar additionally addressed the viewers on the occasion held on the Chief Minister’s Secretariat, and praised Mr. Rao for his contribution in making Telangana a separate state.

“You had been fighting for Telangana as a separate state for long and you make it happen more than others. We all have been witness to it but I wonder how and what some people keep saying something against you,” Mr. Kumar mentioned.

He additionally mentioned that “for some time we also had gone there (making oblique reference to the BJP) but have come back again.”

“We had been demanding for special status to Bihar but they (BJP) kept refusing it… had it been done, Bihar would have made more development and progress,” Mr. Kumar mentioned.

Earlier, each the leaders had paid homage to these 5 Army males martyred in Galwan valley and people killed in a hearth accident at a scrap godown at Bhoiguda close to Hyderabad on March 23, 2022.

Mr. Rao handed cheques of ₹10 lakh every to the subsequent kin of 5 Army males and ₹5 lakh monetary help to members of the family of every of 12 migrant employees from Bihar killed in Hyderabad.

Significance of the assembly

Mr. Rao’s assembly with Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav assumed significance amid the continued political slugfest between the Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) and the BJP in Bihar. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar just lately had severed ties with BJP and since then has been projected as Prime Ministerial candidate in opposition to PM Narendra Modi in 2024 by his occasion leaders and employees.

Mr. Rao, who’s popularly generally known as KCR, too has been interesting for Opposition events unity and pushing for a “BJP and Congress- mukt Bharat” (BJP and Congress free India).

At a public assembly in Telangana just lately, Mr. Rao tore into the NDA authorities on the Centre saying folks ought to pledge to make a BJP- mukt Bharat. He additionally known as Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a golmal PM (chaotic PM).

“Whatever he and the Central government say are blatant lies,” mentioned Mr. Rao.

Political state of affairs mentioned

Sources from the ruling occasion in Bihar, the Janata Dal (United), informed The Hindu that each Chief Ministers additionally mentioned the present political state of affairs of the nation.

“KCR’s visit to Patna and his meeting with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today is a strong indication that process to recognise Mr. Kumar as a possible national leader has begun,” mentioned JD(U) chief and occasion spokesperson Arvind Nishad.

Mr. Kumar, although, has been refusing to nurse nationwide ambition.

“Two daydreamers”: BJP

However, on August 30, senior state BJP chief and occasion Rajya Sabha member Sushil Kumar Modi had taken a dig on the assembly of two Chief Ministers, calling it a “get together of two daydreamers”.

“It was a meeting of two leaders who are losing their base in their respective states and desiring to become Prime Minister of the country,”, Mr. Modi mentioned. “It has been a latest comedy show of Opposition unity.”

Later in the day, Mr. Rao will even meet Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav.