The Andhra Pradesh political dream team of 2014 — which fell apart with disastrous consequences for all three partners in 2019 — is back together again. Despite the BJP’s lack of enthusiasm for the partnership this time round, the TDP’s fear of a backlash from an electorate unhappy with the BJP-led Union government, and the unknown strength of the YSR Congress party, the trio is hoping to recreate its electoral magic of a decade ago.
In 2014, the alliance of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Telugu Desam Party — with outside support from Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena Party, which did not join the electoral fray — won the favour of the electorate, catapulting the TDP’s N. Chandrababu Naidu to the top, making him the first Chief Minister of the residual State of Andhra Pradesh, after the bifurcation of the State.
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