The TDP is returning to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) nearly six years after walking out of the ruling coalition at the Centre with the grievance that the Narendra Modi Government did gross injustice to the bifurcation-hit Andhra Pradesh by not granting it the Special Category Status (SCS) and other demands.
Its re-entry into the NDA now paves the way for the BJP to join the TDP-Jana Sena Party (JSP) alliance in the State, for which JSP chief Pawan Kalyan had been intensely lobbying, while N. Chandrababu Naidu took quite a long time to extend an olive branch to the BJP for his own reasons.
Nevertheless, as the discussions held by Mr. Naidu and Mr. Kalyan with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J.P. Nadda in New Delhi over the last three days ended on a positive note on Saturday morning, the stage has been set for the TDP-JSP-BJP alliance to confront the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) in the general elections, the notification for which is expected to be issued in a matter of days.
