BJP sent feelers for alliance in 2018: BRS’ Rama Rao on PM Modi’s remarks

Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks that he nipped in the bud the desire of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to be a part of NDA, BRS Working President KT Rama Rao has said in fact it was the other way around and the saffron party had sent feelers for an alliance in 2018.
In a message posted on social media platform X on Wednesday, Rama Rao said the BRS has never allied with anyone during polls ever since Telangana was formed, despite several requests. And in fact, it is the opposition that has come together setting aside their ideological differences in an attempt to defeat the “formidable” KCR.
“In 2018, ‘Biggest Jhoota Party’ through its State President Dr K Laxman sent feelers to ally with BRS. Could the offer have been made without the approval of his Delhi bosses? Here is the then BJP state president making a statement on record,” Rama Rao said, posting some old paper clippings suggesting that the then BJP Telangana chief Laxman had said his party was ready to support BRS (then TRS) if the latter fell short of a majority in the 2018 assembly polls.
Refuting Rama Rao’s comments in the post, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Laxman said they were made with ill intentions and aimed at resorting to false propaganda.
“During the GHMC polls, BRS had a tie-up with AIMIM and together they got the mayor seat BJP would never encourage or have alliance with any family run or dynastic political party,” Laxman said in a statement on Wednesday.
Rama Rao, however, further alleged that “political tourists” with selective amnesia who are fabricating stories should know about the BJP’s alleged overtures and said the BRS had rejected the offer outright the very next minute it was made.
Modi had on October 3 at a public rally said he had rejected a request from Chandrasekhar Rao to join the NDA, after the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections in 2020, citing his “deeds.”