Telangana CM KCR beefs up efforts for non-BJP, non-Cong front; meets Mamata after Patnaik

After meeting Banerjee, Rao said: “Our dialogue will continue, very shortly we will come out with a concrete plan. We are discussing things. I will continue with my efforts.”

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New Delhi: In a bid to beef up the efforts for a third front ahead of the Lok Sabha polls next year, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday met his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee and said that they will come out with a concrete plan very soon for a non-BJP and non-Congress alliance for the next year’s elections. After meeting Banerjee, Rao said: “Our dialogue will continue, very shortly we will come out with a concrete plan. We are discussing things. I will continue with my efforts.” He further said that very soon they will come out with a concrete plan for the next year's Lok Sabha elections. Rao, who met his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee at the state secretariat here, described it as a "very pleasant one". The TRS chief came to meet Trinamool Congress president and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee a day after he met his Odisha counterpart and BJD president Naveen Patnaik, another strong regional leader. "We had a very pleasant discussion. We will continue our discussion. There is a dialogue which I had started yesterday. This is a unification of forces across the nation. There is a dialogue I started yesterday. I met Odisha's Chief Minister yesterday and today I met didi," Rao was quoted as saying by PTI. Fresh from victory in his home state Telangana, Rao is meeting prominent leaders to provide an alternative to the Congress and the BJP ahead of the 2019 election. From eastern metropolis as per an earlier official release he would go to Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and latter to BSP chief Mayawati and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav among others. With general election not very far, efforts to cobble up ties among parties have gained momentum. Among anti-BJP bloc, while some leaders like N Chandrababu Naidu and DMK's M K Stalin are trying to forge a broad coalition including Congress, others like TRS chief and Mamata Banerjee are strong votaries of Federal front of regional parties. (with inputs from PTI)