K’taka effect: Federal front idea gets boost!

The high political drama witnessed in Karnataka with the Bharatiya Janata Party virtually bulldozing into power with the support of Governor Vajubhai Wala seems to have given a new lease of life to the proposal to form a federal front in the country.

On Thursday, Janata Dal (S) president and former Prime Minister Deve Gowda called up both Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu seeking their support for its fight against the BJP’s undemocratic way of grabbing power in Karnataka.

He also stressed the need for bringing about unity among all like-minded parties to fight against the BJP.Though he did not raise the issue of supporting the Congress at the national level, Deve Gowda wanted that it was time all the regional parties come together with a common agenda.Already, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati also called for the unity of opposition parties against the BJP to establish a secular government in the Centre.

This has given a new fillip to KCR’s attempt to form a federal front at the national level. His daughter and Nizamabad MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha said the Karnataka election results endorsed the need to form a federal front in the country.“In Karnataka, no party has got the mandate. In fact, the Congress and the BJP had won majority of their seats with a very less margin. Only Janata Dal (S) emerged as a strong force,” she said.

She further said that people are not believing national parties as rightly said by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao adding that the election results have proved the need of Federal Front in the country.