Amid speculations on a Mahagathbandhan before the 2019 polls the chief minister of Telengana, K Chandrasekhar Rao has arrived in Bhubaneswar but no source from the KCR camp has lent credence to such possibility. KCR who arrived in Bhubaneswar as State Guest is scheduled to visit Puri for the Darshan of Lord Jagannath. From here he is to visit Kolkata and meet the Bangal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
His visit to Odisha to be followed by Kolkata has fueled speculations about a non-BJP front for the coming polls in 2019.