Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said which ever party accepts the progressive agenda of governance was welcome to join the Front proposed by him.
Chandrasekhar Rao who flew to Bengaluru this morning met the former Prime Minister and Janata Dal Secular leader HD Deve Gowda to discuss the proposed. Addressing the media after the meeting along with Deve Gowda KCR said the proposed Front was not for silly politics or “a drama of two three leaders” but it would be people’s front and farmers’ front.
In a clear indication that he was not happy with the response he got from the regional and smaller parties so far, KCR said, “now these parties are under the trap of either Congress or the BJP. As Deve Gowdaji appealed to one and all, please come out of the trap. let us save the country, let us safe Bharat Mata let us save our farmers, poor men women who are looking for justice”, KCR said.
“The Front which we are contemplating will be the peoples front of India, common man’s front whoever wants to fall in line we will go forward with them”, he adde.
He said except 6 years or so, for 65 years the country was ruled either by Congress or the BJP and both miserably failed to deliver. He said that the fight between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu for Cauvery river water was one example of this failure. “why it should be kept pending for seventy years. Does it make any sense’, he asked.
lashing out at the Centre he said that the states were fighting for water, people were fighting in the streets and Delhi was enjoying. “There is neither water for drinking nor for agriculture and there are water wars in the country. Who created the water wars”, he asked. “We are fighting among ourselves. There are bandhs. Prime Minister was greeted with black flags in Tamil Nadu. It was because of the inaction and inability of these two parties. It is not that BJP does not got the opportunity. Earlier Congress was ruling on its own and now for the first time that BJP formed its own government. People have given it the opportunity. Still there was no delivery”, he lamented explaining why he felt the need for a Front of non Congress and non BJP parties.
Quoting Central Water Commission figures he said a whopping 70,000 TMCFT of water was available in India and after providing water to each of the 25 to 30 crore acres of land in the country, India will still be left with a surplus of 30000 tmcft of water.
He assured that sufficient water will be available for Tamil, Nadu, Karnataka to the North Easter, West and East of India. Giving the example of neighboring country of China he said it succeeded in taking 1600 tmcft of water of Yangtze river from South to Northern china bordering Mongolia. “Then what is wrong with India”, he said.
Giving example of protracted process in the country he said Brajesh Kumar tribunal on Krishna river was set up in 2004 but it was yet to give its judgement. “But that will also not end. People will then run to Supreme Court and it will take decades. Meanwhile many generations will go”, he said wondering why the Centre can not given a mandate to the tribunals that they should given their judgment with in six months or one year.
“The proposed Front will be an alignment of the masses and farmers of India. We will prepare a big agenda for farmers”, he said. Interestingly KCR appealed to the Telugu speaking people of Karnataka to support Jantada Dal Secular in the coming Assembly elections. He said if asked by Deve Gowda or his son HD Kumaraswamy he was ready to campaign for the JDS in Hyderabad Karantaka region or any where else.
KCR who flew in a special aircraft from Hyderabad was accompanied by his party MPs Vinod Kumar, J Santosh Kumar, legislator V Prashant Reddy and film star Prakash Raj among others.
Deve Gowda was second key regional leader with whom KCR held discussions on the proposed front. Earlier he visited Kolkata and met the West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress president Mamata Bannerji.