As the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) troika looked on with apprehension at Telangana Chief Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s temple pageantry in Maharashtra, the BRS chief on June 27 questioned why the State’s political parties felt so threatened by his party.
As Mr. Rao visited the historic Vitthal-Rukmini and Tulja Bhavani temples in Pandharpur and Dharashiv respectively, the top brass of the MVA, which included the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Congress and the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT), decried the BRS as the ‘B-team’ of the ruling BJP which was out to cannibalise their traditional vote bank.
Later, addressing a public meeting at Sarkoli near Pandharpur in Solapur district, Mr. Rao said: “Tell me one party in Maharashtra that has not been given a chance… the Congress ruled the State for a full 50 years. Then, the people have given a chance to the NCP, the Shiv Sena and the BJP. If they really wanted to work for the betterment of the people, any one of them could have done so.”
