Though there is a general impression that the Bharatiya Janata Party has improved its position in the coming parliament elections in the wake of the recent conflict between India and Pakistan, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi is still optimistic about the formation of a federal front government at the Centre.
TRS spokesperson Abid Rasool Khan told a news agency that neither the BJP or nor Congress-led coalition would be able to form government at the Centre after the elections.
“It is going to be a non-Congress, non-BJP government that would be formed after the Lok Sabha elections and TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao would play a very important role at the Centre,” he said.
He exuded confidence that the TRS would win 16 out of 17 MP seats in Telangana.
Khan denied suggestions that KCR's push towards forging a non-Congress, non-BJP federal front of regional parties was losing steam.
"Things will change as the election results come out, or in the run up to the elections", he claimed.
He said the TRS was open to talk to any party which is "secular" in nature and is not aligned with BJP and Congress.
Several regional parties fit in "that bracket", Khan said listing YSRCP, BJD, TMC, SP and BSP in this regard. "We are ready to talk to all of them".
Khan reminded that even Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was also talking about moving out of the Congress grip in Bihar.
“If that happens, we are ready to talk to him also", he said.
"Anybody who is not aligned with the Congress or the BJP, we will talk to them. When KCR is trying to build a coalition without his personal agenda, I think lot of parties will respond to him and political scenario will change in the country in the coming days," Khan added.