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KCR's Third Front beset with infantile challenges

Prof.K.Nageshwar | Apr 10, 2018

TRS Chief K Chandrashekhar Rao calls for Third Front comprising of non congress and non BJP parties. Several parties like TMC, JMM, MIM, RJD expressed their support to the idea. Though there is always a space for alternative to congress and BJP the Third Front is beset with several infantile disorders like lack of cohesive leadership, concrete agenda and vacillating character of these regional parties. Meanwhile, skeptics see a political strategy in KCR's new found enthusiasm to rally non congress, non BJP parties given the fact that he has been avidly supporting Modi dispensation all these years.

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