HYDERABAD: In a bid to mobilise support of regional parties against the BJP-led government at the Centre, Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao will meet Tamil Nadu counterpart MK Stalin in Chennai on Tuesday.
KCR, who left for TN on Monday along with family, visited Ranganatha Swamy temple in Srirangam and arrive at Chennai later in the night.
Both KCR and Stalin have maintained good ties for the past few years. The TRS chief met Stalin in 2019 as part of his efforts to bring regional parties’ under one umbrella to form a federal front. KCR had then met Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee too, but the plan didn’t take off.
“CM will seek DMK’s support over Centre’s discriminatory paddy procurement policy in southern and northern states as well as on other issues against the Narendra Modi government. He will also discuss his demand for more powers to states in agriculture, education and health sectors,” a senior TRS leader said.
The pink party has been vocal against the Centre both in Parliament and outside for the past few weeks on the paddy issue. Earlier, in the last week of October, DMK MPs had handed over to party working president KT Rama Rao a letter from Stalin to KCR seeking support on NEET row. But TRS government did not support abolition of NEET exam.
KTR had announced he would visit TN to study organisational structure of DMK, with an eye on replicating it in Telangana.
