TRS ditches Third Front

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) on Sunday, May 10 formally joined the BJP-led National Democractic Alliance at a public rally. TRS is fighting for a separate Telangana state in Andhra Pradesh.

TRS supremo K Chandrashekar Rao shared the dais with the entire top brass of NDA leaders. Rao was felicitated by the Akali Dal president and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in the presence of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani and BJP president Rajnath Singh…More

Third Front on the verge of crack in AP?

Too many cooks spoil the broth, they say. More than 10 parties all over the country have come together to form the Third Front, but there is trouble between the two main players of the Front in Andhra Pradesh.

The Telugu Desam Party and the Telangana party are having a spat over who will contest from six assembly seats.

The alliance that holds hands together well, stays together. Perhaps all this fumbling was an indication of things to come with Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhara Rao driving a hard bargain with his Third Front partners in Andhra Pradesh.

The TRS wants to contest 48 assembly seats but Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP is willing to give only 42…More..