HYDERABAD: With JD(S) leader HD
Kumaraswamy
all set to take oath as the chief minister of Karnataka, Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Tuesday said that his prediction has come true.
“I had spoken about the power of regional parties. This is only the beginning,” Chandrashekar Rao told media at the residence of former prime minister Deve Gowda in Bengaluru where he met Karnataka chief minister-designate Kumaraswamy and congratulated him.
When a reporter asked him about the Tthird front’ referring to the non-Congress and non-BJP alternative that KCR had been talking about, he said: “It is a continuous process.”
“God is great. I wish Kumaraswamy and Karnataka good luck,” Chandrashekar Rao said in a brief interaction with reporters at Deve Gowda’s residence.
He said that since had an important meeting pertaining to the ‘Rythu bandhu’ scheme in Hyderabad on May 23, he would not be able to attend the swearing in ceremony of Kumaraswamy.
“Tomorrow I have a collectors’ conference, so I thought I should meet Kumaraswamy (today itself) and extend my good wishes. Some time later, I will come back but tomorrow I will not be there (in Bengaluru). Good luck to Mr Kumaraswamy, good luck to Karnataka,” KCR said.
Chandrashekar Rao, who took a chartered flight to Bengaluru, was received by JD(S) supremo Deve Gowda with a bouquet. KCR presented Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy with a bouquet and felicitated the latter with a shawl.
Speaker Madhusudhana Chary, deputy chief minister Mahmood Ali, TRS secretary general and former MP
K Keshava Rao, health minister C Laxma Reddy, agriculture minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, Karimnagar MP B Vinod Kumar, and
Rajya Sabha
member J Santosh Kumar, were among those who accompanied the chief minister.
Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyde...
Read MoreSushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.
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