The BJP alleged today that Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's pitch for a "non-BJP, non-Congress front" at the Centre was aimed at insuring himself against possible prosecution for corrupt practices. The chief minister had said a non-Congress and non-BJP front should be set up in the country, and that he was keen to participate in national politics to bring about "qualitative changes" in governance. Telangana BJP spokesperson Krishna Saagar Rao claimed the CM's pitch for a front was aimed at elevating himself in national politics which would help him with a tag of "vendetta politics" if some agency were to target him for his government's corrupt practices. "There is a possibility of investigation of some past and present corrupt practices by CM KCR (as the chief minister is popularly known)," he told PTI. "And on the anvil of elections (due in Telangana next year) to secure himself from these kind of charges, he is trying to build up a case so that he can claim political vendetta," the BJP spokesperson alleged. The chief minister had earlier served as the Union labour and employment minister. He also alleged that "there is massive corruption" in large projects taken up by the state government. "So, he is insuring himself against that kind of possible prosecution," Krishna Saagar Rao alleged. He claimed that Chandrasekhar Rao had supported all developmental, welfare, political and reforms initiatives of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "Tell me one initiative or one scheme or one act of the central government that he (the CM) opposed in the last four years," he said. Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N Uttam Kumar Reddy had yesterday ridiculed the chief minister's plans to float such a front. Reddy accused the CM of "enacting a drama" to divert attention of the people from "his failures". He said that it was a game plan to cover up the TRS government's failure in getting central funds for the state. "Now both the BJP and the TRS are jointly playing mind games to distract people's attention from their failures.
It is strange that the chief minister is calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a friend and rival in the same breath," Reddy said.
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