: Bharat Rashtra Samithi may act as trendsetter #IndiaNEWS #News By Amitava Mukherjee Great interest is likely to be generated all over the country as K Chandrashekhar Rao, the Chief Minister of Telangana

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Bharat Rashtra Samithi may act as trendsetter #IndiaNEWS #News
By Amitava Mukherjee
Great interest is likely to be generated all over the country as K Chandrashekhar Rao, the Chief Minister of Telangana and the founder of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (now BRS), launches his own national party. It may act as a trendsetter as no other regional party of the country has so far attempted to go national in spite of the fact that some of them carry names that have national connotations.
KCR’s move has come at a time when the country is in flux. The BJP government of Narendra Modi, though starting on a different note, is now faltering. Modi started on a ‘development’ narrative but his developmental concept has always hinged on capitalist ideas leaving the common people of the country in the lurch. Soaring inflation and unemployment and the Central government’s apparent apathy towards it are telltale signs of the real ‘development’ ideas that the Modi government is trying to sell
KCR’s decision will be keenly watched all over the country because hardly, in the recent political history of India, a regional party has decided to transform it to a national one. True, there are the Janata Dal (United), the Samajwadi Party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Trinamool Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party, etc. , are there in the field for a long time. But none of them has been able to rise above their State-wise character. Akhilesh Yadav is bogged down in Uttar Pradesh. Mamata Banerjee is more interested in becoming the principal face among opposition leaders. Her actions suggest that in doing so she is prepared to sabotage the overall opposition unity also. Lalu Prasad and Tejashwi Yadav cannot think about anything outside Bihar. Even Sharad Pawar’s shadow is confined within Maharashtra.
If KCR moves along the right way, he might be a real challenge to Modi. It is not hyperbole or paean but KCR’s concept of development stands in stark contradistinction to that of Modi. While the latter’s Bills on agrarian reform led to huge protests from farmers the former’s different types of endeavours in the same arena did not lead to any social unrest. As the BJP is desperately trying to gain a foothold in Telangana these two types of developmental concepts are likely to clash with each other.
Will KCR be able to set up a motion of change in our national political course? The 1980s and the 1990s saw the heydays of regional parties which coincided with the weakening of the Congress. Richard Mahapatra, a serious commentator on Indian politics, informs us that “ … in the first Lok Sabha election in 1952, of the 55 political parties that contested 18 were regional parties.

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