Latest On Andrapradesh Status , TDP Alliance with BJP

The drama over special status for Andhra Pradesh state is taking multiple turns everyday. After the resignations from the ministers, everyone thought that TDP would break the alliance with BJP but it did not happen. Meanwhile, there are certain that have come to the observation.

Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandra Babu Naidu announced that his ministers are submitting the resignations but Chandra Babu Naidu did not break the alliance with BJP. The resignation drama happend only to take the moment forward but there is nothing that Chandra Babu Naidu or the state of Andhra Pradesh is going to gain with this.

At a meeting with party leaders here and in his regular teleconference with party MPs, Naidu took stock of the situation after the TDP quit the Modi government on Thursday after accusing it of failing to grant special status to Andhra Pradesh.

On Friday, President Ram Nath Kovind accepted the resignations by central ministers P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju and Y.S. Chowdary.

Naidu is said to have pointed out that the Telugu Desam Party had polled a good percentage of votes when it contested alone in the local bodies elections in 2014.

The same percentage was retained in the Assembly and General elections a few months later when it went to polls in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

TDP MPs informed Naidu that many parties in Parliament supported the TDP’s decision to pull out of the Modi government.

Several ministers and leaders in the state also told him that 98 per cent of the people in the state were appreciative of the “timely and right” decision.

Naidu formed a team involving senior leaders to follow the political developments at the national level. Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister Y. Ramakrishnudu, Kala Venkat Rao, S. Chandramohan Reddy, Ch Kutumba Rao and others are part of the team.

In Delhi, TDP Lok Sabha member J.C. Diwakar Reddy told the media that the TDP’s ‘talaq’ (divorce) with the BJP was over.

“When a wife and husband separate, they continue to interact with each other about the future of their children. It is their responsibility. Our meetings with BJP hereafter are like that,” he said.