Team News Riveting
Ranchi, March 4
Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao visited Jharkhand on Friday to explore the possibility of including the regional party in his attempt to forge a front against the BJP.
KCR, as he is popularly known, met JMM patriarch Shibu Soren before meeting Chief Minister and his son Hemant Soren. The Telangana Chief Minister termed his meeting with “Guru Ji (Shibu Soren) as a good-will gesture to thank him for his contribution during the Telangana statehood movement.
KCR has earlier met with Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackery. He was on a four-day New Delhi visit that concluded Thursday. During his visit to the national capital, KCR met different leaders.
Speaking to reporters after his hour-long meeting with Shibu Soren, KCR said that it was too early to define the nature of the proposed alternative front at the national level to take on the BJP. However, he said it was high time that everyone who cared for the country joined hands.
“I don’t know if the alternative front which we are exploring will be anti-BJP sans Congress or not. But one thing is for sure that substantial efforts are being put to give shape to a credible front which can take this country forward,” he said.
KCR however castigated the previous regimes that included Congress government also to assert that in the last 75 years of Independence, India hasn’t progressed the way it should have. “See how China and other Asian countries are taking big leaps,” said KCR.
Hemant was also present at the brief media interaction.
The Telangana Chief Minister also handed over Rs 10 lakh ex-gratia each to the kin of two soldiers killed in last year’s Galwan clashes. The martyrs include Kundan Ojha of Sahebganj and Ganesh Hansda of Bahragora.
