Kolkata: Telangana Chief Minister and TRS chief K Chandrashekhar Rao met his Bengal counterpart and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday and said that the dialogue over formation of a Federal Front for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections will continue.
"Our dialogue will continue and very shortly we will come out with a concrete plan. We are discussing things...a non-Congress, non BJP front is my mission. I will continue my efforts," Rao said after meeting Banerjee at the state secretariat Nabanna.
He reiterated that an alternative front to the Congress and BJP-led alliances is not a small matter. "Wait for the right time. The dialogues will continue," he told reporters with Banerjee and some senior ministers of the state government beside him.
Rao, popularly known as KCR, has achieved a resounding victory in the recently-concluded Telangana Assembly polls, and is now working on forming an alternative coalition front ahead of the 2019 general elections. He had also met his Odisha counterpart and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief Naveen Patnaik, at his residence in Bhubaneswar on Sunday.
The TRS president would spend the next three days in New Delhi, where he would meet Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav. Since he is visiting the national capital for the first time after the Assembly elections, he will also be making a courtesy call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
It may be mentioned that Mamata Banerjee has been talking about the formation of the Federal Front from early this year.
Chandrababu Naidu has already met Mamata Banerjee and on Saturday, Farooq Abdullah met her as well and discussed about the functioning of the Federal Front. Many national leaders who will join the Front will come to attend the Brigade Parade Ground Rally, scheduled to be held on January 19, 2019.