HYDERABAD: With JD(S) leader HD
Kumaraswamy all set to take oath as the chief minister of Karnataka, Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Tuesday said that his prediction has come true.
“I had spoken about the power of regional parties. This is only the beginning,” Chandrashekar Rao told media at the residence of former prime minister Deve Gowda in Bengaluru where he met Karnataka chief minister-designate Kumaraswamy and congratulated him.
When a reporter asked him about the Tthird front’ referring to the non-Congress and non-BJP alternative that KCR had been talking about, he said: “It is a continuous process.”
“God is great. I wish Kumaraswamy and Karnataka good luck,” Chandrashekar Rao said in a brief interaction with reporters at Deve Gowda’s residence.
He said that since had an important meeting pertaining to the ‘Rythu bandhu’ scheme in Hyderabad on May 23, he would not be able to attend the swearing in ceremony of Kumaraswamy.
“Tomorrow I have a collectors’ conference, so I thought I should meet Kumaraswamy (today itself) and extend my good wishes. Some time later, I will come back but tomorrow I will not be there (in Bengaluru). Good luck to Mr Kumaraswamy, good luck to Karnataka,” KCR said.
Chandrashekar Rao, who took a chartered flight to Bengaluru, was received by JD(S) supremo Deve Gowda with a bouquet. KCR presented Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy with a bouquet and felicitated the latter with a shawl.
Speaker Madhusudhana Chary, deputy chief minister Mahmood Ali, TRS secretary general and former MP
K Keshava Rao, health minister C Laxma Reddy, agriculture minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, Karimnagar MP B Vinod Kumar, and
Rajya Sabha member J Santosh Kumar, were among those who accompanied the chief minister.
