Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister and TRS Chief K Chandra Sekhar Rao expressed solidarity with the farmers who have called a Bharat Bandh on December 8. KCR on Sunday said that after expression of token resistance to the farm laws that the centre has brought forth in Parliament, there was no follow up in the state.

KCR in a statement on Sunday appealed to the party workers to make the bandh successful in Telangana. He described as just the agitation of farmers against the farm laws and recalled the TRS raising its voice against them in Parliament. He felt that the farmers should continue their agitation until the farm legislations are repealed.

The chief minister has come under fire from several quarters in the past that Now and then, Opposition Congress had accused the Chief Minister of having a soft centre for the BJP, though public posturing of the TRS is to the contrary. He seems to have decided to come out openly against the saffron party by throwing his weight behind the agitating farmers for the repeal of the farm laws.

As the task for the TRS is cut out – to retain power in the next Assembly elections by stopping the onward march of the BJP, the Chief Minister is understood to have taken an all-out anti-BJP stand and thus retrieve the lost ground. As the political milieu in the state is now bi-polar, the TRS seems to be reworking its strategy to cut the BJP down to size, by winning the farmers, a very large constituency in Telangana, to his side.