Regional parties better placed to respond to people’s needs: Former Speaker

BENGALURU

Former BRS Parliamentary Party person and ex-Speaker K.R. Suresh Reddy has said that determination parties are amended placed to respond to the needs of people.

He said this during a sheet treatment connected “Nurturing our Pluralist Union: The relation of determination authorities successful strengthening democracy” connected the 2nd time of The Hindu Huddle 2026 connected Saturday.

Rajya Sabha members Javed Ali Khan (Samajwadi Party), and Dr. Santrupt Misra (Biju Janata Dal) besides spoke extensively connected determination parties’ influence.

Mr. Reddy acknowledged that the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) had faced setbacks successful Telangana, losing some the Assembly and Parliamentary elections, but pointed to section assemblage polls arsenic grounds of revival.

“He said that its resurgence is rooted successful the information that determination parties tin respond amended to the needs of people. Their aspirations, their needs are overmuch much answered, overmuch much met, and overmuch much taken up by determination parties than nationalist parties,” helium observed.

The erstwhile Speaker said that India was formed retired of 550 princely states, and that the diverseness of the state requires determination voices to beryllium heard. “The deepening of ideology is indispensable and that tin hap lone done determination parties,” helium said, stressing that nationalist parties often neglect to seizure the nuances of section issues.

Speaking astir the adjacent nationalist elections, Mr. Reddy predicted that conjugation authorities would beryllium the mode forward. He argued that some nationalist parties had been tested, 1 failing and the different fixed aggregate chances, leaving abstraction for determination parties to look arsenic a credible alternative. “That gives america a wide opening that if we signifier a beardown confederation and determination distant from caste authorities to improvement politics, determination is simply a possibility,” helium said, citing Tamil Nadu arsenic an illustration wherever determination parties person successfully led alliances.

Mr. Reddy besides clarified that the BRS remains non‑aligned successful Parliament, neither with UPA nor NDA, and takes positions based connected nationalist interest. Rejecting charges of opportunism, helium insisted that determination parties are wide successful their positions.

“Our governmental basal has been perfectly clear. Even though we are a determination party, whether we enactment oregon oppose, it doesn’t substance successful Parliament. The factors done opposing and supporting enlighten the federation that this is what is close for us,” helium said.