<p>JD(S) leader and former Karnataka CM H D Kumaraswamy has backed K Chandrashekar Rao's idea of an alternative front in national politics, while adding that he should “play a key role.”</p>.<p>Kumaraswamy also welcomed KCR's plans to launch a national party soon.</p>.<p>In a tweet after emerging out of the talks with KCR over Karnataka, Telangana and national issues, Kumaraswamy announced that “KCR will take a plunge into national politics around 2023 Karnataka assembly elections and before Vijayadashami festival.”</p>.<p>Kumaraswamy arrived in Hyderabad on Sunday and held a three-hour discussion with Rao over lunch at the CM's official residence Pragathi Bhavan. The meet comes as a follow up to the parleys in Bengaluru on May 26, the day when KCR skipped receiving Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a visit here and flew to the "Garden City" to confer with the Gowdas.</p>.<p>Speaking to reporters then, KCR hinted at a grand alliance of the opposition parties and announced that “you will receive sensational news after two, three months.”</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/telangana-cm-k-chandrashekar-rao-eyes-electoral-pie-beyond-telangana-to-launch-national-party-1144164.html" target="_blank">Will float national party soon, says Telangana CM KCR</a></strong></p>.<p>Plowing on with his slogan of “BJP-mukt Bharat”, KCR was in Patna less than a fortnight back, soon after Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar broke ties with the BJP and formed a new government in alliance with the RJD.</p>.<p>“Our endeavor will be to unite all the opposition parties in the country,” Rao told reporters in Patna, even as he skirted a question if Kumar could become the PM face of the proposed alliance.</p>.<p>After the KCR-Kumaraswamy meet on Sunday, the CMO issued a press statement saying that “Kumaraswamy asserted that the immense experience of CM Rao, who achieved statehood by uniting all sections and moving forward in a democratic and peaceful manner, is urgently required to the nation in the prevailing situation.”</p>.<p>The two leaders, CMO said, stressed the need for unity of all alternative political forces “to safeguard the spirit of the country's democratic federalism.”</p>.<p>“Kumaraswamy said that KCR, who is leading Telangana on the path of progress fulfilling the people’s 60-year-old aspirations, should move forward to constitute an alternative front in the national politics and play a key role,” the CMO said adding that the JDS leader “welcomed that KCR will soon be announcing a national party.”</p>
<p>JD(S) leader and former Karnataka CM H D Kumaraswamy has backed K Chandrashekar Rao's idea of an alternative front in national politics, while adding that he should “play a key role.”</p>.<p>Kumaraswamy also welcomed KCR's plans to launch a national party soon.</p>.<p>In a tweet after emerging out of the talks with KCR over Karnataka, Telangana and national issues, Kumaraswamy announced that “KCR will take a plunge into national politics around 2023 Karnataka assembly elections and before Vijayadashami festival.”</p>.<p>Kumaraswamy arrived in Hyderabad on Sunday and held a three-hour discussion with Rao over lunch at the CM's official residence Pragathi Bhavan. The meet comes as a follow up to the parleys in Bengaluru on May 26, the day when KCR skipped receiving Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a visit here and flew to the "Garden City" to confer with the Gowdas.</p>.<p>Speaking to reporters then, KCR hinted at a grand alliance of the opposition parties and announced that “you will receive sensational news after two, three months.”</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/telangana-cm-k-chandrashekar-rao-eyes-electoral-pie-beyond-telangana-to-launch-national-party-1144164.html" target="_blank">Will float national party soon, says Telangana CM KCR</a></strong></p>.<p>Plowing on with his slogan of “BJP-mukt Bharat”, KCR was in Patna less than a fortnight back, soon after Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar broke ties with the BJP and formed a new government in alliance with the RJD.</p>.<p>“Our endeavor will be to unite all the opposition parties in the country,” Rao told reporters in Patna, even as he skirted a question if Kumar could become the PM face of the proposed alliance.</p>.<p>After the KCR-Kumaraswamy meet on Sunday, the CMO issued a press statement saying that “Kumaraswamy asserted that the immense experience of CM Rao, who achieved statehood by uniting all sections and moving forward in a democratic and peaceful manner, is urgently required to the nation in the prevailing situation.”</p>.<p>The two leaders, CMO said, stressed the need for unity of all alternative political forces “to safeguard the spirit of the country's democratic federalism.”</p>.<p>“Kumaraswamy said that KCR, who is leading Telangana on the path of progress fulfilling the people’s 60-year-old aspirations, should move forward to constitute an alternative front in the national politics and play a key role,” the CMO said adding that the JDS leader “welcomed that KCR will soon be announcing a national party.”</p>
