HYDERABAD: Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will not attend the mega opposition rally being held by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on Saturday. On Friday, KCR called the TMC chief and conveyed to her that TRS would not participate in the public meeting since Congress would be part of it. The Telangana assembly is also in session and governor ESL Narasimhan will address the House on Saturday.K Chandrasekhar Rao has floated the idea of a federal front to bring regional parties under one umbrella as an alternative to the BJP and the Congress at the Centre. His idea is that a non-Congress and non-BJP force should be formed to counter the two national parties in the best interest of ‘federalism’.Since the time he announced his foray into national politics and floated the federal front idea, KCR has met leaders of various regional parties. In fact, the first person he met was Mamata Banerjee herself. Both leaders then said they would explore the possibility of working together.Mamata, however, is working towards stitching up a non-BJP coalition and has no reservations about the Congress being part of the united opposition. Though Mamata had made that clear, KCR met her for the second time in December last year.Interestingly, leaders of some regional parties who KCR had met to bring them under the federal front roof will also be attending the Kolkata rally. They include Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy and his father and former prime minister Deve Gowda.KCR had met the Janata Dal leaders twice.Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu will attend the Kolkata meet as he had also shared the dais with the Congress at the swearing in of Kumaraswamy as Karnataka chief minister. Naidu is opposed to Chandrasekhar Rao and has always been taking a dig at the latter’s federal front idea saying that it was a non-starter. Naidu had earlier sailed with the NDA government at the Centre but broke ties with it as AP had not been given special status after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.TRS working president K T Rama Rao met Chandrababu Naidu’s rival in Andhra Pradesh, YSRCP leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in Hyderabad recently to explain to him about the Federal Front idea. KCR will also meet Jagan in Andhra Pradesh soon to hold further discussions with him.It is learnt that Jaganmohan Reddy has not been extended an invitation by Mamata Banerjee for the Kolkata rally.

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