Assembly Elections 2018 LIVE: TRS Stands for Telangana Rashtriya Sangh Parivar, Says Rahul Gandhi

Assembly Elections LIVE: Entering the final phase of the ongoing election season, parties are going all out to woo voters in Rajasthan and Telangana — two battlefields that are wide open and could be anyone’s game. While PM Narendra Modi is hitting the campaign trail in Rajasthan, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu will share the election dais in Telangana’s Khammam.

Rajasthan and Telangana are among the five states that will go to polls in the ongoing election season. While Chhattisgarh voted in two-phase elections on November 12 and 20, Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram are voting today. Rajasthan and Telangana will be the last to vote on December 7. The results, billed as the semi-final to the big battle for Lok Sabha in 2019, will be declared on December 11.

Rahul Gandhi and Chandrababu Naidu will share the dais at their first public meeting at Khammam to campaign for “grand alliance” candidates in Telangana’s Assembly elections.

This is the first time two top leaders of the Congress and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) will be sharing the stage at an election rally since they agreed to work together to form an alliance of non-BJP parties at the national level.

In a dramatic shift of TDP’s stand towards Congress, Naidu met Rahul Gandhi this month and they agreed to bury the past and work together to unite opposition parties.

Congress party’s Telangana unit working President Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and TDP leader Nama Nageswara Rao on Monday visited the Government Degree College in Khammam where the ‘grand alliance’ public meeting will be held.

They said the public meeting will not only bolster the alliance’s campaign but will be significant for national politics. Vikramarka said the meeting would send a message to the whole country.

The Congress is leading the ‘grand alliance’ in Telangana which includes the TDP, Communist Party of India (CPI) and Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS).

TDP’s Telangana unit chief L. Ramna and leaders of CPI and TJS shared dais with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi at a public meeting at Medchal near Hyderabad on Friday.

For the Khammam public meeting, the Congress has also invited CPI General Secretary S. Sudhakar Reddy and TJS leader M. Kodandaram.

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