Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi repeatedly claimed to win over 400 seats in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, he is eager to reach alliances with smaller and regional parties exposing BJP’s fear of a security majority in the next Lok Sabha. Most of the parties in NDA are contesting five or even less seats and some parties even didn’t contest at all.

In this background, BRS MLC K Kavitha’s arrest also linked with BRS refusal to join NDA. It may be recalled that Delhi Chief Minister Aravind Kejriwal was arrested only after he didn’t heed BJP’s warnings against seat sharing with Congress in a few states.

Having failed to get two- digit assembly seats in Telangana very recently, the BJP seems to be trying bitterly to have an alliance with BRS. Now it was made public by former finance minister T Harish Rao that the Enforcement Directorate framed Kavitha in a false case after the BRS had refused an alliance with the BJP for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections.

Further, he asserts that she would not have been behind bars if the BRS had agreed to the alliance. Addressing the party’s election preparatory meeting in Sangareddy on Tuesday, Harish Rao made it clear that the BRS would never become an ally of the BJP because it was a secular party.

The Centre was framing Opposition party leaders across the nation in various cases. The ED had arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in similar fashion, he said, adding that the Centre was keeping safe leaders who got into alliances with them, while those who opposed them were sent to jail.

While the Congress and BJP had different agenda for attaining power at the Centre in different States, the sole agenda of the BRS was the future of Telangana, he said, pointing out that both the national parties had cheated Telangana as they did nothing for the State.

Harish Rao lamented that the center had failed to set up even a single medical college in Telangana even though the BJP government had opened 154 medical colleges across the nation during the last 10 years.

Accusing the Congress Party of coming to power by making false promises, Harish Rao said Revanth Reddy’s government had failed to keep the promises made during the election campaign.