As Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) aims to make inroads into Maharashtra, Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) senior leader Ajit Pawar said that even Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) Mayawati and the late Mulayam Singh Yadav of Samajwadi Party (SP) had attempted to establish a presence in the western State but they had ultimately proved unsuccessful.
“He [K. Chandrasekhar Rao] is trying to expand BRS outside Telangana as he might want to become a national leader,” Mr. Ajit Pawar said, emphasising the potential for regional parties to strengthen themselves beyond their home States.
The Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly said that as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, both Ms. Mayawati and Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav had tried to expand their respective parties in Maharashtra with some MLAs from SP and BSP, but in vain.
