Opinion: KCR Predicted That, But Chandrababu Did It

Back in 2018, Telangana’s former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao predicted that regional parties and coalition governments are going to play a key role in national politics.

Perhaps that is the reason he has rechristened his party, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) as Bharath Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in 2022 and met many regional party heads in other states, such that he would become a Prime Minister in the coming days.

Cut to the present, as per KCR’s prediction, Chandrababu Naidu, the supremo of a regional party in Andhra Pradesh, is playing a crucial in the NDA government today.

The moment we see him sitting next to Narendra Modi, the third-time PM-elect of BJP, one can understand the fact that regional parties are playing a key role in national politics.

Though KCR predicted it well, surely he has failed to look into his own backyard properly. He failed to gauze the situation in Telangana and lost big time, with no single MP seat to their party, thus missing out on Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha as well for 5 more years simply. However, Naidu didn’t do that.

Naidu aptly understood how important it is to form allies and when Pawan Kalyan convinced him to form an alliance, he stepped forward and then joined hands with BJP as well though the saffron party earlier tried to avoid him for obvious reasons. Thus he won on home turf first and then started dictating his terms in Delhi, which is right now making many Telugu people proud.