TRS to leverage farmers' stir by gathering support from Opposition
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao
Pink party gears for ‘one nation, one election’ idea
Hyderabad: The TRS appears to have come to a conclusion that 'One nation One election' is a certainty either towards the end of 2022 or early 2023 and wants to be fully geared up for the situation. It wants to speed up the process of preparations from now itself so that it can stop any further growth of the BJP in the state.
TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao, who has been contemplating to form a federal front against the BJP, is said to be in touch with JD(S) leader Kumaraswamy in Karnataka, Trinamul Congress leaders in West Bengal, SP and BSP leaders in Uttar Pradesh and AAP president and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.
Party sources claim that all the top leaders of these parties are being invited for the proposed conclave to be hosted by KCR soon. It is learnt that KCR wants to take up a series of agitations involving employees, farmers and workers against various policies of the BJP-led government.
KCR told the party leaders that the Centre had turned pro-privatisation and anti-farmers. Though the TS government was ready to give more than the MSP, but the "black law" of the Centre had put brakes on the efforts of the state government to help farmers. The new laws say that if the states give more than MSP to farmers, the central agencies will stop procurement, he said.
Meanwhile, the party has decided to use the ongoing farmers' agitation in Delhi as a platform to blow its bugle against the Centre. On Monday, the TRS cadre has been told to take out rallies in support of the farmers, meet all commercial establishments and urge them not to open their shops and malls till noon on Tuesday.
"It should be a day of Galli Galli bandh," party working president K T Rama Rao told the party workers on Sunday. He said TRS salutes the agitating farmers who have been giving sleepless nights to the Centre and have brought life to standstill in Delhi borders braving the biting cold weather. "Delhi should be reminded of the kind of dandhs Telangana had seen during the agitation for separate T state," he said.
On Tuesday, all MPs, MLAs, MLCs and corporators will sit on dharna on national highways.
The TSRTC has been asked to suspend the bus services till 12 noon on Tuesday. Transporters have been told not to operate their lorries till noon. The Sikh Sangat and the Congress party have also extended their support to the bandh call.
