TL-TRS-YSRCONGRESS

TRS to hold talks with YSR Cong to try and rope in party to

proposed Front

Hyderabad, Jan 15 (PTI): Stepping up his efforts to form

a non-BJP non-Congress federal front, Telangana Chief Minister

K Chandrasekhar Rao Tuesday decided that TRS would hold talks

with YSR Congress to try and rope the party into it.

Rao deputed the partys working president and his son K

T Rama Rao and other senior leaders to hold talks with the

leader of the opposition in Andhra Pradesh, Y S Jaganmohan

Reddy for the talks Wednesday, a release from the ruling

Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS)) said.

"TRS president and the Chief Minister decided to hold

talks with YSR Congress party on the issue of joining hands

for the federal front.

TRS partys working president K T Rama Rao, senior leader

and MP Vinod Kumar and general secretaries Palla Rajeshwar

Reddy and Sravan Kumar Reddy were asked to hold discussions

with Jaganmohan Reddy.

Accordingly KT Rama Rao and his team will hold talks with

Jagan tomorrow (January 16)," it said.

KCR, as he is popularly known, had met Trinamool Congress

(TMC) supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

on January 10 as part of his renewed efforts towards forging a

'non-Congress, non-BJP' federal front of regional parties.

Rao had also met Odisha Chief Minister and Biju Janata

Dal (BJP) chief Naveen Patnaik, seeking to drum up support for

the federal front.

The TRS returned to power in the December 7 2018 assembly

elections, winning 88 seats in the 119-member Telangana

Assembly, pushing the Congress to a distant second position

with 19 seats.

The BJP won in only one segment.