Telugu Desam Party snaps ties with BJP, exits alliance with NDA

Amaravati: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) led by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday snapped ties with the BJP and exited the alliance with NDA.
The decision was taken by Naidu in a teleconference and was unanimously by party politburo.
In fact, the politburo meeting was scheduled in the evening but Naidu advanced it. Later, Naidu held teleconference with MPs and informed them of the politburo decision. He also directed the MPs to move a no-confidence motion against the central government today.
Naidu told MPs the no-confidence motion should be on not granting special status to Andhra and not implementing the assurances given to the state in the AP Reorganization Act.
Naidu told MPs to coordinate with other like-minded opposition parties to get support to the no-confidence motion.
Naidu will also write a detailed letter to BJP party president Amit Shah detailing the reasons behind snapping ties.
He will write how the central government has “misled the people of Andhra Pradesh by not giving special status… then they promised a special package which too was not implemented”.
The party had earlier on Thursday extended its support to the YSR Congress Party’s no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government in Parliament on Friday.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu had on Thursday said, “If necessary, we will support the no confidence motion against Centre, whoever may place it.”
TDP has 16 members of in the Lok Sabha.
A majority of the members including MPs, MLAs and senior leaders had already told Naidu to quit the alliance.
“This is the final option. The CM is livid that instead of resolving issues faced by the state, the BJP is indulging in dirty politics that it played in Tamil Nadu,’’ TDP leader Kambhampati Rammohan Rao said.