opposition: 13-party joint statement isolates KCR, reveals division in Opposition ranks

Whereas Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao has been pitching because the anti-BJP (Bharatiya Janata Get together) face, the 13-party joint assertion by not together with him seems to have poured chilly waters on his nationwide political ambitions whereas additionally revealing division within the Opposition ranks.

The joint assertion was issued by senior leaders of 13 opposition events, together with interim president of Congress Sonia Gandhi, the Nationalist Congress Get together (NCP) patriarch Sharad Pawar, and the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The Opposition leaders within the joint assertion expressed their issues at incidents of communal violence in several elements of the nation.

However the joint assertion did not embrace leaders from Telugu Desam Get together (TDP) and Janata Dal (Secular) although their leaders N Chandrababu Naidu and HD Deve Gowda respectively had beforehand been lively within the nationwide politics.

The absence of the three events from the joint assertion is being seen as a blow to the Opposition’s unity within the political circles. That it is within the backdrop of the Opposition events holding parleys within the latest months to shut their ranks within the run-up to the 2024 basic elections makes the non-inclusion of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), TDP, JD (S) vital. It additionally alerts the isolation of KCR from the nationwide politics within the Opposition camp.

The Telangana CM within the latest previous has proven his nationwide political ambitions, making makes an attempt to undertaking himself as an alternative choice to PM Modi. He has additionally known as on the ‘like-minded’ events to return collectively to type a 3rd entrance to tackle the BJP.

In a bid to accentuate efforts to carry collectively the anti-BJP events on one platform, Rao met a number of Opposition leaders. He had met Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar throughout his Mumbai go to in February.

Increasing his outreach to the ‘like-minded’ events, KCR, within the latest previous, had backed Congress chief Rahul Gandhi over alleged derogatory remarks of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in opposition to former PM Rajiv Gandhi.

Quite the opposite, in what might be seen as a significant setback, Rahul Gandhi made it clear in a gathering with the Telangana occasion leaders that Congress wouldn’t forge an alliance with TRS. Pawar and Shiv Sena have additionally said that no third entrance is feasible with out the inclusion of Congress.

Whereas TDP contested Meeting elections with Congress in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, the occasion failed to realize point out within the 13-party joint assertion.

The JD (S), which had an alliance with Congress in Karnataka, too wasn’t included within the joint assertion.

The exclusion of TDP from the checklist of ‘like-minded’ events factors towards a doable tussle between the occasion and Congress. The 2 events have contested elections in alliance with one another previously, therefore the exclusion has raised eyebrows.

Sonia Gandhi (Congress), Sharad Pawar (NCP), Mamata Banerjee (TMC), M Okay Stalin (DMK), CPI (M)’s Sitaram Yechury, Farooq Abdullah (NC), Tejashwi Yadav (RJD), D Raja (CPI), Debabrata Biswas (Ahead Bloc), Manoj Bhattacharya (RSP), PK Kunhalikutty (IUML), and CPI (ML)’s Dipanker Bhattacharya issued the joint assertion on Saturday.