KCR, Nitish Kumar launched joint attack on BJP

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Wednesday took on the BJP, tweaking its slogan of "Congress-mukt Bharat". "What we need now is BJP-mukt Bharat (BJP-free India)," said Rao in Patna, who has been trying to formulate a non-Congress non-BJP front for several years.Why Third Front, we are working on the main Front," he said. "All opposition parties should come together and raise the slogan for a BJP-mukt Bharat... We will try to unite all Opposition parties in the country, added Rao, indicating that he was on board with the idea.

Earlier,the two leaders- Rao and Nitish Kumar- launched a joint-attack on the BJP, sharing dais at a function in Patna. Kumar criticised the publicity and the BJP-led Centre's alleged lack of sensitivity towards the needs of the states.Kumar further said that the funding to states was dropping, but publicity continued. “A backward state like Bihar needed special status. I kept demanding it. I had also gone to their side. Had Bihar got special status, its growth would have been different by now and added momentum to the country’s progress. The media is also giving one-sided publicity. They criticise all and praise just one,” he added, exhorting media to be neutral in its approach. Rao gave away Rs10 lakh each to the families of five soldiers, who laid down their lives fighting the Chinese aggression in the Galwan Valley in 2020, and Rs 5 lakh each to the kin of 12 labourers, who were killed in a fire incident at a scrap factory in Hyderabad in March this year,. I have also asked to frame a policy for the migrant workers who contribute immensely in Telangana’s growth, he added.