BRS, BSP to work together for Lok Sabha elections, KCR to lead alliance talks with Mayavati

HYDERABAD: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) have decided to form an alliance and contest the ensuing Lok Sabha elections. They will soon announce the seat-sharing arrangement and other nitty-gritty of the alliance after BRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) speaks with BSP president and former CM Mayavati.

BSP Telangana unit’s president RS Praveen Kumar met KCR at his Nandi Nagar residence here on Tuesday and discussed the issues related to contesting together in the Lok Sabha elections in Telangana. Later addressing media KCR declared an alliance with BSP and said that both the parties had similar ideologies. He recalled that his Government implemented Dalit Bandhu and many other welfare programmes for the overall development of Dalits in the State.

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He said that the BSP Telangana unit took the prior permission of the party high command and within a day or two he would speak with Mayavati to seal the deal.

Praveen Kumar said that he was very happy to personally meet KCR. He expressed concern over the demise of secular values in Indian politics. He said that KCR had fought valiantly against the rightist politics of the BJP. The former IAS officer said that the Congress Government in the State was emulating BJP’s working style.

“It has been three months since Congress took over, but the unemployed youth have been facing several problems. We have decided to work together with the BRS. We will appraise the issue of seat sharing to the party’s high command. This alliance will help to improve the lot of the weaker sections in the State,” he said. He said that a final picture of the alliance would emerge after KCR spoke with Mayavati.