Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao was said to have told the Telangana Rashtra Samithi MPs that the party would forge an issue-based relationship with the BJP at the national level.
“We neither have friendship nor enmity with any party. We must observe restraint in dealing with the Centre,” sources quoted Mr. Rao as telling the Parliamentary Party meeting of the TRS here on Thursday.
Rajya Sabha Member of TRS K. Keshava Rao was retained as Parliamentary Party leader on the occasion. Mr. Rao addressed a letter to this effect to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi after the meeting.
Mr. Rao cautioned the TRS MPs of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha against the danger of the BJP dismissing other parties in Parliament as lightweights at the back of the saffron party winning the recent elections with an absolute majority. It was likely that the BJP would release more funds to States ruled by it.