A formal alliance between BJP and TDP in Telangana could happen just before the assembly elections in the state, slotted for later this year. But the question is whether ‘settler’ votes will transfer to a potential BJP-TDP combine.
Are longstanding yet buried tensions within the BJP state unit in Telangana coming to the surface after the national party’s humbling defeat in the Karnataka assembly elections? Developments in the last three days seem to indicate as much.
New Delhi, June 13 (PTI): Walking in the blistering summer heat and raising slogans of solidarity with Rahul Gandhi, Congress members defied police restrictions as they joined their party leader when he headed to the Enforcement Directorate office for questioning in the National Herald case on Monday. Several workers were detained in the morning when they were on their way to join the ‘Satyagraha march’ called by the opposition party, but scores of others gathered at the party headquarters here by 9 am, holding the national and party flags. Slogans of ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ and ‘Rahul tum sangharsh karo hum tumhare saath hain (Rahul you fight, we are with you)’ rent the air as Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and other prominent leaders of the Congress reached the party office. The protesters waved placards that read: ‘Satyamev Jayate’ (Truth Alone Triumphs) and “Will not fear, will not bow, will fight for truth anyhow’, as the proc