K Chandrashekhar Rao leans towards Congress, wants JDS to broker deal

With the results of the Lok Sabha elections set to be announced in less than three weeks, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, who has been in the forefront of stitching up a non-BJP, non-Congress front, is making all-out efforts to meet leaders of such political parties, especially in the southern states.
He has already met his Kerala counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan and unsuccessfully attempted to meet Congress alliance partner in Tamil Nadu, DMK’s chief M K Stalin. The most interesting of all his outreach efforts, however, has been in Karnataka to Congress’ coalition partner JDS.
Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy’s telephonic conversation with K Chandrashekhar Rao on Sunday over the issue of releasing water from Almatti dam to the parched districts of Telangana made headlines. However, another hush-hush phone conversation between the two chief ministers on Monday centred around the possible outcome of the May 23 results.But contrary to the belief that Rao is attempting to unite regional party leaders to form a formidable non-Congress and non-BJP combine, sources close to Kumaraswamy suggest that Rao is looking to be an ally of the Congress and has sought JDS’ help to ease the transition.

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