K Chandrasekhar Rao and N Chandrababu Naidu get invite to Kumaraswamy’s oath-taking

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / May 20, 2018, 13:16 IST

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K Chandrasekhar Rao and N Chandrababu Naidu get invite to Kumaraswamy’s oath-taking

Telangana Congress leaders celebrate the victory of JDS-Congress combine, at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad on Saturday

HYDERABAD: The chief ministers of two Telugu states, K Chandrasekhar Rao of Telangana and N Chandrababu Naidu of Andhra Pradesh, are among the regional parties’ leaders who have been invited by JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy for his swearingin as the next chief minister of Karnataka on May 23. This also virtually takes forward by a leap a strong alternative for the BJP to take shape for the 2019 elections.
Kumaraswamy announced, while speaking to the media in Bengaluru after meeting Karnataka governor Vajubhai Vala on Saturday, that he invited several leaders from other states for his swearing-in ceremony.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee confirmed that she had been invited. “I spoke to Kumaraswamy ji and congratulated him. He invited me for the oath taking ceremony on Monday,” she said on Twitter.
Though KCR has been invited, it could not be ascertained if he would be attending the swearing-in. Sources said KCR could be inclined to attend as he had been optimistic and declared openly during his visit to Bengaluru that Kumaraswamy would most certainly become the chief minister of Karnataka.

It is important to note that Congress and JD(S) chose Hyderabad to keep their ‘flock’ safe from being poached by the Yeddyurappa government which had to quit on Saturday due to lack of support.
KCR had said this in the context of his attempts to bring together various regional parties with a single development agenda to take the country forward. On April 13, he had gone to meet former PM Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy in Bengaluru with that idea.
Former CM of UP and SP leader Akhilesh Yadav, whom KCR met in Hyderabad, has also been invited. BSP leader and ex-UP CM Mayawati was also invited.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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