Need alternative agenda, not forming front: KCR

Hyderabad, April 27 (Agency) Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader and Chief Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday said the country needs an alternative agenda and not a new political fronts. Addressing TRS delegates after unfurling the party flag on the occasion of party’s 21st foundation celebrations here, KCR said he was not floating a front. Holding meetings with various regional parties was not for dislodging the Central government but for working out an alternative agenda for a better India. He said the country has lost its goals and targets due to the wrong policies of the Modi government. KCR said he had said no to the Communist leaders when the idea of dislodging the Modi government was mooted. He insisted that the focus should not be on bringing down any party. In his one-hour speech, he said that if Hyderabad sets an agenda for a qualitative change in the country, it would be a proud movement for Telangana.

The state has become a role model for others in the implementation of welfare and developmental programmes, he said, and expressed concern over water wars despite the availability of natural resources. “We have created an irrigation potential that enabled the production of a record quantity of paddy, so much so that even the Food Corporation of India has thrown up its hands during procurement,” he said. Nearly 3,000 party delegates from 33 districts attended the meeting.