Hyderabad: The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Tuesday, March 5 announced an alliance for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
The announcement was made after a meeting between the state BSP chief RS Praveen Kumar and BRS chief K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) at the latter’s residence at Nandi Nagar.
Addressing the media, BRS chief KCR said that the pink party is forging a “respectful” alliance with the BSP and more details on the subject will be announced soon.
“The BRS and the BSP are ideologically similar parties. We (BRS) have implemented several schemes like the Dalit Bandhu and other schemes for the welfare of the marginalised sections,” he remarked.
Explaining the BSP’s decision, Praveen Kumar said that the call to join hands with the ‘secular’ BRS was taken to put up a fight against the anti-secular nature of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“The Congress is also becoming like the BJP. We have joined hands to protect Telangana from this threat,” he stated.
He added that the call on seat sharing will be taken after a discussion between BSP national president Mayawati and BRS chief KCR.
“This friendship will change the lives of Telangana’s populace. The alliance will strive to uphold the Ganga Jamuna Tehzeeb culture of the state,’ he remarked.
Further, he criticised the ruling Congress in the state over discontentment in Telangana’s unemployed youth. “Also, a culture of diluting Secularism is growing in the state,” he added.
It is important to note that both the national BSP president and the state BSP chief RS Praveen Kumar were quite critical of the previous BRS dispensation’s rule in the state.
The development comes one day after the BRS announced its first list of four candidates- B Vinod Kumar for Karimnagar, Koppula Eshwar for Peddapalli. Nama Nageshwar Rao for Khammam and Maloth Kavitha for Mahabubabad as its candidates.
