Hyderabad: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to join Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s efforts to form a front against the BJP and the Congress.
Earlier Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has disclosed that a strong and credible federal front as an alternative to the BJP and the Congress would come into being before the 2019 elections.
Mr Rao had met Ms Banerjee at Kolkata and discussed the idea with her. She had said at that time that it would not be possible to form a front against the BJP at the national level without the Congress.
The West Bengal Chief Minister wants to form a front against both the BJP and the Congress. It is not yet clear whether she will support the Federal Front proposed by Mr Rao or form a front of her own.
Pitching for the formation of a new national front ‘third front’, MR Rao had said that it would not be a ‘silly political front’, but will work for India’s masses.