KCR Projects Pan-India Image With Meet, Key Opposition Leaders On Board

The BRS meet comes days ahead of the grand finale of the Congress's Bharat Jodo Yatra, for which it has invited 21 opposition parties including the Samajwadi Party and the CPM.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao took the first step towards building a non-Congress Opposition Front today with the maiden meet of his party since it went national. Bharat Rashtra Samiti's meet in Hyderabad's Khammam town was attended by Aam Admi Party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and Kerala Chief Minister, CPM's Pinarayi Vijayan, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and CPI's D Raja.

JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy who has been supporting KCR's foray into national politics, could not attend the meet due to his ongoing Pancharatna Rath Yatra (statewide tour) in Karnataka.

Sharing stage with the four Chief Ministers, Akhilesh Yadav, a former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, said: "Yesterday the BJP's meeting (National Executive)  concluded. They themselves said that 400 days are left for left. This govt is counting its days. It will not stay after 400 days."

The BRS meet comes days ahead of the grand finale of the Congress's Bharat Jodo Yatra, for which it has invited 21 opposition parties including the Samajwadi Party and the CPM. Mr Kejriwal's AAP, though, is missing from the list of invitees.