KCR MAY BE OPPOSITION'S FACE FOR 2024 BATTLE

The Telangana Chief Minister plans to change the profile and format of his political outfit Telangana Rashtra Samithi.

- AJIT MAINDOLA

In what will have far-reaching political implications, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao is understandably planning to throw his hat in the ring of national political arena. He will try to set his foot and consolidate his position in national politics.

However, he would neither launch any third front nor would he cobble up any alliance kind of formation. He will try to groom and grow his own party Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) at the national level, with the sole aim to challenge the BJP in the 2024 parliamentary electoral battle.

TRS chief Chandrashekar Rao may clear the picture in the coming days on the entire plan about his party's structure and format at the national level. Ahead of all this, Rao is reaching out to some non-Congress and nonBJP leaders in what is being viewed as his efforts to ensure that the vote-bank of the opposition remains intact. The Telangana CM is keeping his own counsel on all the plans that he will be unfolding in days to come. But there are enough indications that he would catapult his party into the national sphere of politics, and once he does so, the CM would be going for an alliance with different players at state levels only.

Moreover, the TRS chief has a political plan handy to counter the communal issues as well. Developmental issues will form the very basis of his politics, for which Rao would be highlighting at the national level his decisions in the interest of farmers, youths and common people of his state. Obviously, these issues will be what Rao would be pursuing to make his presence felt nationally.