Telangana Elections: Rahul Gandhi shares dais with Chandrababu Naidu, calls TRS a 'B team' of BJP

Sharing dais with TDP chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu for the first time after forging a four-party alliance, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the TRS is the "B team" of Sangh Parivar and the BJP and the aim of K Chandrasekhar Rao's party and the AIMIM is to ensure that his party is not able to defeat the BJP at the national level.

Addressing a rally in the poll-bound Telangana's Khammam, Gandhi said all promises made at the time of the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh would be fulfilled after a coalition of anti-BJP parties comes to power at the Centre. The rally was also attended by Congress’ other alliance partners for the Telangana elections-- CPI and Telangana Jana Samiti – which Gandhi described as "historic" in the state and national politics.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi after attending meeting with Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu in Hyderabad:We aren't adversaries.There is similarity in our vision.We are fighting for voice of people of Telangana.We are working together as there is threat to this nation from PM pic.twitter.com/VbFm1lrocI

— ANI (@ANI) November 28, 2018

Gandhi added if the TRS stands for the welfare of the people of Telangana, it should not support the BJP. Referring to Modi's remark at a public meeting in Nizamabad on November 27 that the Congress and TRS are "two sides of a coin", Gandhi wondered why then Rao and his party never criticised the Rafale deal and supported issues raised by the Congress.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi & Andhra Pradesh CM and TDP Chief Chandrababu Naidu in a corner meeting in Sanath Nagar, Hyderabad. #TelanganaAssemblyElections2018 pic.twitter.com/mJNIwLqNTT

— ANI (@ANI) November 28, 2018

"Modi promised two crore jobs to youth. KCR (Rao) promised one lakh jobs. I want to ask you how many jobs both gave," he said.

While addressing another rally at Kosigi in Mahabubnagar district, the Congress president said: "First we will fight against Narendra Modi's B team (the TRS) and after that we will beat the A team (the BJP-led NDA).

"The name of TRS is not Telangana Rashtra Samiti, it's Telangana Rastriya Sangh Parivar. TRS is the B team of Sangh Parivar and the BJP. Don't forget this," he added.

Naidu, who also held a road show in Hyderabad with Gandhi, asked people to be careful about "manipulation" of EVMs during the polling.

(With PTI inputs)