KCR to meet Mamata next week

Kolkata: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao will meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at Nabanna on December 24 to discuss the nuances of the Federal Front proposed by the latter.

KCR has become the Chief Minister of Telangana for the second straight term and his party — the Telangana Rashtra Samithi has bagged 88 seats in the recently declared result in Telangana Assembly polls while the Congress got 19 and BJP claimed one seat.

KCR has announced plans to work towards forging a non-Congress, non-BJP Federal Front of regional parties.

KCR had met Mamata Banerjee some months ago and discussed the formation of the Federal Front. Rao will meet Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in Bhubaneswar on December 23. He will also meet Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav in New Delhi.

Meanwhile, Farooq Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, met Mamata Banerjee at Nabanna on Friday afternoon. He said the unity of the Opposition parties is a must to save the country.

Asked to comment on the results of the BJP in five states where Assembly elections were recently held, he said the saffron party has failed to rule the country properly.

Abdullah said the youth of the nation had lost direction and took an apparent dig at the BJP by saying people are trying to win elections in the name of god.