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BJP means 'Break Janta Promise: TDP after quitting NDA

Kashmir Times. Dated: 3/17/2018 3:05:53 PM

ANDHRA PRADESH, Mar 16 (Agencies): The ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Andhra Pradesh, an NDA ally, today formally decided to quit the NDA coalition government, days after two of its ministers quit the Narendra Modi government protesting for Special Category Status to Andhra Pradesh.
The party will also move a no-confidence motion against the Modi government over the injustice meted out to the state, an official communique said. The Congress party will support the no-confidence motion against the centre by the TDP and YSR Congress party, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee President N Raghuveera Reddy said .
The TDP politburo unanimously took the decision during a tele-conference with party supremo and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu this morning.
The party politburo meeting to decide over quitting the NDA was planned for this evening, but the formality was completed during the daily tele-conference Chandrababu holds with party leaders in the morning.
The TDP will write a letter to BJP president Amit Shah and also other constituents of the NDA informing its decision and the reasons for it, the communique said.
TDP leaders CM Ramesh, Thota Narsimhan, Ravindra Babu and others said the 'BJP means 'Break Janta Promise'.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu yesterday accused the BJP-led central government of metting out injustice to the people of Andhra Pradesh.
Naidu stated this in the state assembly hours after YSR Congress, TDP's rival in the state, gave notice for moving a no-confidence motion against the Narendra Modi government, in the backdrop of the Centre's refusal to grant special category status to Andhra Pradesh.