As the Lok Sabha general elections are fast approaching, there has been a talk in the political circles in Telangana that the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) led by former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is interested in having an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The discussion on such a possibility is understood to have come up for discussion within the party during the meeting, but KCR has not opened up his mind completely. He just threw up a discussion within the party.
However, sources said KCR’s daughter Kalvakuntla Kavitha and nephew T Harish Rao are keen on entering into an alliance with the BJP, though his son K T Rama Rao is not very much interested in the same, as he wants the BRS to regain its strength on its own.
According to sources, KCR told the party colleagues that it would not be correct to directly approach the BJP national leadership and offer to join the National Democratic Alliance. Instead, the BJP itself should invite the BRS to join hands with it, he suggested.
“The BJP has given a call to various parties, including its erstwhile colleagues, to join the NDA. But it has not sent us any such signals; maybe, because we took an aggressive stand against it till recently. So, we need to send feelers to the national BJP leadership that we are also ready to join the NDA,” KCR reportedly told the party colleagues.
It is learnt the BRS president is likely to send feelers to the BJP national leadership through favourable leaders like G Kishan Reddy. But having spurned the BRS offer in the past, it is doubtful whether the BJP national leadership in general and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in particular would entertain KCR, sources added.
