While BJP-led NDA is confident of winning a record number of 400 seats in the Lok Sabha and the Congress-led INDIA though silent on forming government on its own, but claiming that they can prevent BJP from forming next government, BRS chief and former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao predicting that a third front government will be formed at the Centre after the Lok Sabha elections.
Incidentally, he made the same prediction both in 2014 and also 2019 claiming that his party is going to play a crucial role in forming the next government. According to him, both NDA and INDIA will get around 200 seats each only and are unable to form the government on their own.
He said that the regional parties are growing in stature and will act as deciding factors in the government formation. “The power of regional parties is increasing. He said that parties like TMC in West Bengal, AAP in Delhi, Punjab and DMK in Tamil Nadu will play a big role and will be deciding factors.
“I.N.D.I.A alliance is nothing. Even ND Alliance (NDA), is also not very big, many parties left the coalition…but they can get around 200 seats each,” he said.
On being asked who could be the PM candidate for the I.N.D.I.A bloc, he said. “It is too early to say now. Let’s wait for the election results…NDA will definitely not get the complete majority and BJP will also not reach 272 (seats)…”
When questioned about his support for BJP or Congress, he said that BRS will be fighting against both of them. “We have to fight with both (Congress and BJP). Both of them are enemies of Telangana and this has been proved several times. So we need to fight both,” he added.
KCR further stated that people will vote against BJP in the elections. “The farmers in the country are distressed. Both BJP and Congress have done injustice to them. People will go against Narendra Modi. I think BJP can’t reach a majority on its own,” the former CM said.
Attacking the Congress party, he said the whole country knows about the ‘corruption’ that happened under Congress. “The entire country knows about corruption done by Congress…because of this they have been named ‘Scamgress’,” he added.
