If the reports coming from the Telugu Desam Party sources are to be believed, party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu might respond to the friendly hand extended by the Congress party to the TDP.
With two Bharatiya Janata Party ministers in the Telugu Desam Party government in Andhra Pradesh resigning from their posts on Thursday following the straining of relations between the two parties, speculations began in political circles as to who would replace them in the cabinet.
Within a day of Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu declared that his party is pulling out of the Narendra Modi government, if not the NDA, the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in the state have decided to take the TDP head on.
Leaders of the Congress Party in Andhra Pradesh submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission of India on Friday demanding action against the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Telugu Desam Party for their failure to deliver on their manifesto promises and assurances.
There is a proverb in Telugu: “Eru datentha varaku Oda Mallaiah, Eru datina taruvaatha bodi Mallaiah,” which is used to refer a person who takes the help of a boatman to cross the river and discredits the same boatman after reaching the shore.
Responding to YS Jagan Mohan Reddu's skepticism at the TDP Ministers tendering their resignation to the Union Cabinet, the TDP has once again surprisingly chosen to focus on the illegal assets cases pending against YS Jagan and stated categorically that he is a man hungry for the CM seat. This is indeed a strange argument.
By deciding to break the alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party in a gradual manner, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has once again proved that he has mastered the art of use and throw his allies according to his political convenience.
It is now more or less certain that the Telugu Desam Party has snapped the ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party.Now, the question is what he would do in the coming days.
With the TDP-BJP break-up reaching a flash point, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is learnt to have called up TDP president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu to make a last-ditch attempt to pacify the latter and retain him in the NDA.
Two Bharatiya Janata ministers - medical and health minister minister Kamineni Srinivas Rao and endowments minister P Manikyala Rao submitted their resignation letters to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday.
After months of uncertainty, the Telugu Desam Party seems to be on the verge of pulling out from the NDA, with two of the party’s ministers in the Union Cabinet set to submit their resignation letters on Thursday.
Jana Sena Party president and power star Pawan Kalyan has disclosed an interesting development with regard to how the BJP leadership at the Centre tried to intimidate him for questioning the NDA government on the special category status issue.
The proposal made by Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for a third alternative to the Congress and the BJP seems to be a non-starter, notwithstanding his claim that he would tour different parts of the country to mobilise the support.
Power star and Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan seems to have no clarity as to what he is going to do in the coming days and how his party is going to fight the next elections.
The shadow-boxing between Telugu Desam Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party has reached a climax with both the sides getting ready to end honeymoon at the earliest.
