Telangana CM KCR is again going to visit New Delhi soon. Yes. Soon after the paddy procurement protest of April 11, he is going back to Delhi, where he would spend another five days. He has just spent over a week in Delhi for some dental procedures. If this happens, this would be his fourth visit to Delhi in recent times.
Though most of KCR’s visits were personal – for the treatment of his wife or for himself – the proposed visit is said to be of political nature. He is likely to hold discussions with the leaders of the farmers unions in North India to understand their problems. He is also likely to visit some bereaved families of the farmers and pay them some ex-gratia. He is likely to visit the kin of the farmers who died in UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri where a BJP MP’s speeding car mowed down eight protesting farmers.
TRS sources also say that KCR would meet several non-Congress and non-BJP chief ministers to chalk out a common programme for the 2024 elections. According to sources, this will be a preparation for a national role for himself in the days to come. The stay would be used to get a feel of the national political scenario, say sources.
However, KCR’s plans to cobble up an anti-BJP, non-Congress front have hit a stone wall when Nationalist Congress Party’s Sharad Pawar said that no anti-BJP alliance was possible without the involvement of the Congress Party. He said Congress was key to any anti-BJP front. It remains to be seen how KCR carves out a niche for himself in national politics.
