Telangana CM KCR meets Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav in Patna

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s meeting with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav assumed significance amid the ongoing political slugfest between the Mahagathbandhan and the BJP in Bihar

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao reached Patna on Wednesday and met his counterpart Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav.

At an event, Mr. Rao also pledged financial assistance to the family members of five Galwan valley martyrs and 12 migrant workers who were killed in a fire accident in Hyderabad on March 23 this year.

“We are citizens of two great rivers of the country Ganga and Godavari. Godavari is known as Ganga in South India. I wanted to visit Bihar earlier but couldn’t come due to lack of time,” he said.

“Now, when got an invitation, I reached here to honour those martyrs and the workers killed in a fire accident in Hyderabad,” said Mr. Rao during the programme.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar also addressed the audience at the event held at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat, and praised Mr. Rao for his contribution in making Telangana a separate state.

“You had been fighting for Telangana as a separate state for long and you make it happen more than others. We all have been witness to it but I wonder how and what some people keep saying something against you,” Mr. Kumar said.

He also said that “for some time we also had gone there (making oblique reference to the BJP) but have come back again.”