Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao inaugurates Bharat Rashtra Samithi party office in Delhi | India News
NEW DELHI: Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) on Wednesday took another step forward towards his plunge into national politics as he inaugurated the central party office of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) here in the presence of several opposition leaders.
BRS is the transformed national version of KCR’s original party Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).
With ParliamentтАЩs winter session in progress, KCR unfurled the BRS flag at his new party office in the presence of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) chief and MP Thirumavalan, farmer leader Gurnam Singh among others including TRS MPs and ministers. In fact Gurnam Singh Chaduni was later appointed as president of the BRS kisan cell.
While the original BRS party office is under construction in Vasant Vihar, the premises inaugurated today on SP Marg has been rented to function as the central office from where the party’s national activities are set to take off.
BRS offices are also slated to come up in states like Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, it is learnt. With Karnataka assembly polls coming up early next year, it is likely that BRS will tie up with the Janata Dal (Secular) in the state.
The BRS office opening here comes a week after the Election Commission of India accepted a request from the TRS to rename it as BRS. This after a resolution was passed at a general body meeting of the TRS in Hyderabad to transform the party into BRS.
For almost a year now, KCR has been seeking the mandate of his people to transform the тАЬTelangana modelтАЭ of governance into a national model and putting questions at public rallies of turning TRS to BRS.
With the BJP making a foray into Telangana where it hopes to make significant electoral gains, KCR has been accelerating his aggressive stand against the saffron party to counter the push that it has already yielded results in some pockets in his state.
This is also being seen as a strategy by the KCR to mount pressure and divert an aggressive BJP in Telangana, by taking on the saffron brigade at the national level.
Meanwhile, TRSтАЩ main opposition in the state, Congress has also upped the ante against the ruling party, after Telengana Police raided the Congress war room in Hyderabad on Tuesday night and arrested some leaders, allegedly without any notice.
While Congress MPs were planning to gherao the BRS office soon after its opening on Wednesday, they kept away from the move finally, after communications from Telangana Police, said sources.
Earlier, KCR has been meeting with leaders and chief ministers from other non-BJP parties like M K Stalin, Mamata Banerjee, Uddhav Thackeray, Nitish Kumar, Arvind Kejriwal among others, as a part of plans to go for national politics.
BRS is the transformed national version of KCR’s original party Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).
With ParliamentтАЩs winter session in progress, KCR unfurled the BRS flag at his new party office in the presence of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) chief and MP Thirumavalan, farmer leader Gurnam Singh among others including TRS MPs and ministers. In fact Gurnam Singh Chaduni was later appointed as president of the BRS kisan cell.
While the original BRS party office is under construction in Vasant Vihar, the premises inaugurated today on SP Marg has been rented to function as the central office from where the party’s national activities are set to take off.
BRS offices are also slated to come up in states like Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, it is learnt. With Karnataka assembly polls coming up early next year, it is likely that BRS will tie up with the Janata Dal (Secular) in the state.
The BRS office opening here comes a week after the Election Commission of India accepted a request from the TRS to rename it as BRS. This after a resolution was passed at a general body meeting of the TRS in Hyderabad to transform the party into BRS.
For almost a year now, KCR has been seeking the mandate of his people to transform the тАЬTelangana modelтАЭ of governance into a national model and putting questions at public rallies of turning TRS to BRS.
With the BJP making a foray into Telangana where it hopes to make significant electoral gains, KCR has been accelerating his aggressive stand against the saffron party to counter the push that it has already yielded results in some pockets in his state.
This is also being seen as a strategy by the KCR to mount pressure and divert an aggressive BJP in Telangana, by taking on the saffron brigade at the national level.
Meanwhile, TRSтАЩ main opposition in the state, Congress has also upped the ante against the ruling party, after Telengana Police raided the Congress war room in Hyderabad on Tuesday night and arrested some leaders, allegedly without any notice.
While Congress MPs were planning to gherao the BRS office soon after its opening on Wednesday, they kept away from the move finally, after communications from Telangana Police, said sources.
Earlier, KCR has been meeting with leaders and chief ministers from other non-BJP parties like M K Stalin, Mamata Banerjee, Uddhav Thackeray, Nitish Kumar, Arvind Kejriwal among others, as a part of plans to go for national politics.
