Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will attend JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy's oath-taking ceremony as Chief Minister of Karnataka in Bengaluru on Monday.
TRS sources said Mr Kumaraswamy had telephoned Mr Rao late on Saturday and invited him for the cermony. Mr Rao congragulated Mr Kumaraswamy and promised to attend it.
Mr Rao had previously visited Bengaluru to meet JD(S) leader and former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy as part of his attempts to forge a Federal Front, in April just before Assembly elections and extended support to the party.
Mr Rao also urged Telugu voters in Karnataka to vote for the JD(S) saying that both BJP and Congress had failed in bringing a qualititative change.
Mr Rao's presence at the ceremony will be interesting as the JD(S) has tied up with the Congress to form government and moreso because the oath-taking ceremony is likely to be attended by AICC president Rahul Gandhi, Chief Ministers N. Chandrababu Naidu and Mamata Banerjee and former UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party.
It remains to be seen how Mr Rao would share the dias with Mr Gandhi.
Mr Rao has been making efforts to bring all regional parties together to take on the national parties and has already met Ms Banerjee, DMK leader M.K. Stalin and Mr Yadav besides the Gowdas so far.
