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Telugu Desam Party Quits NDA, Says Will Move No Confidence Motion Against Government In Lok Sabha
Narendra Modi and Chandrababu Naidu in the run-up to the 2014 General ELections (Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) today (16 March) formally left the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), a week after two of its ministers – Ashok Gajapathi Raju and Y S Chowdary – resigned from their posts in the Union Government. The decision to exit was taken earlier this morning through a tele-conference with party chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
The TDP and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had been at loggerheads for quite some time over the lack of special status being granted to residual Andhra Pradesh after Telangana was carved out of it in 2014.
Fissures in the NDA have been going on with its key ally the Shiv Sena saying that it will contest the 2019 General Elections on its own.
The BJP currently has 272 seats in the Lok Sabha with the greater NDA coalition having 315 seats post the TDP’s departure.
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