A day after Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s talks with Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar to stitch up an anti-BJP front, the Maharashtra Congress leadership said no grand coalition of Opposition parties was possible without the Congress.
Mr. Rao, the president of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), had held talks for several hours with both Mr. Thackeray and Mr. Pawar during his day-long visit to Mumbai on Sunday, but did not meet any leaders from the Congress in Maharashtra.
The Congress is in alliance with the Sena and the NCP in Maharashtra where the three parties have formed the ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi’ coalition against the BJP.