The BRS chief said that his party would strive hard to bring about a qualitative change in national politics and in governance to ensure allround development.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today announced that his party would enter national politics with an agenda of "Ab Ki Baar, Kisan Sarkar".
Addressing the party's general body meeting at the party headquarters Telangana Bhavan after formally changing the name from Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) to BRS, the BRS chief said that his party would strive hard to bring about a qualitative change in national politics and in governance to ensure allround development of the country.
"The country is having abundant natural and human resources. Unfortunately, we are not able to utilise them in a proper way, resulting in social disparity and unrest in all the States. It needs to be changed immediately, and the change will start with the BRS," KCR said.
"India is blessed with the best weather conditions and is having 40 crore acres of cultivable land and 70,000 cusecs of water. Such conditions are available nowhere in the world. However, with successive governments at the Centre failing to utilise these facilities, farmers are being forced to stage agitations for irrigation waters. And meanwhile, India has been at the lowest rungs for some years in the Global Hunger Index rankings," KCR lamented, and said that the BRS would work to get the Telangana model replicated across the country through optimal utilisation of available natural resources.
He also said that there was a need for bringing in new policies, including in agriculture, water, power, economic, environment, weaker section upliftment and women empowerment, for the overall development of the country, and that the BRS would strive hard for that.
The BRS chief also emphasised the need to safeguard the federal spirit of the nation and ensure basic facilities for all in strict adherence to the Constitution of India.
KCR advised the party leaders to ignore the criticism from the opposition parties over the BRS foraying into national politics, and said that he had surpassed similar criticism and went on to achieve Telangana State.
He then announced that the BRS would contest its first elections in Karnataka where the Assembly polls were scheduled to be held in May next year, in alliance with the Janata Dal (S). He extended complete support to the JD (S), and wanted the party leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy to assume the CM position once again.
The Chief Minister is scheduled to inaugurate the party's national office in Delhi on December 14, where he is likely to address the national media to explain to the people of the nation, the party's national plans.