Hyderabad: The dream of Telangana Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) President K. Chandrasekhar Rao to play an active role in the national politics seems to have been dashed at least for the present as he has decided to keep the idea on the backburner for the time being, party sources say.

According to the party leaders many factors have influenced KCR and prompted him to change his plans — one of them being the lack of enthusiastic response from the other regional parties to his non-BJP, non-Congress Federal Front.

The other factor was the increasing traction gained by the Bus Yatra of the state Congress president Uttam Kumar Reddy and other party leaders who have attracted impressive crowds at different places in the state.

Moreover alarm bells were also set ringing in the state’s ruling party over the growing differences with in the party in several districts, which may affect chances of success for the party in the next elections.

Originally KCR had planned to invite the top leaders of other regional and smaller parties to the public meeting as part of the TRS Plenary on October 27 marking the launching of the proposed Federal Front. But now the plan has been dropped.

The TRS Plenary in Hyderabad will only have delegates session and public meeting will be held in October or November this year to which the leaders of other parties will be invited.

“Our party’s plans to bring a qualitative change in ntional politics will be unveiled in the public meeting”, the party general secretary P. Rajeshwara Reddy said.

KCR, who had visited Kolkata last month to discuss the proposed front with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Bannerji has now also postponed his visit to other states.

Sources said that he was not satisfied with the response of other leaders as most of the parties have indicated that they would prefer to be part of a Congress-led coalition against the BJP-led NDA.

“The idea of a non-BJP, non-Congress Front is not finding many takers”, a senior TRS leader confided.

The party hopes that the situation will become more clear by the end of this year as the next election will be close and other parties will also fainalise their own strategies.

With the Congress pressure mounting and murmurs of dissent increasing within the party many TRS leaders were also of the view that the time was not ripe for KCR to plunge in national politics and he should put more focus on the state politics to ensure party’s victory in the state assembly elections.