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The stellar performance of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), led by Chandrababu Naidu, in Andhra Pradesh, winning 16 of the 17 Lok Sabha seats it contested, and the BJP falling short of the half-way mark at the Centre has catapulted the TDP as the second-largest constituent of the BJP-led NDA, thus giving it a strong bargaining hand.
Following his party’s drubbing in the recent Assembly elections, the ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) seems to be in no mood to grant YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy the post of Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Assembly.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on Friday appointed JanaSena Party (JSP) president K Pawan Kalyan, 55, as the Deputy CM with the portfolios of Panchayati Raj and Rural Development with additional portfolios of Rural Drinking Water Supply, Environment and Forests, and Science and Technology.
The hum of bulldozers and the chatter of construction workers are sure-shot signs of a ghost city coming back to life. Even before Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu takes oath as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, wheels are in motion to revive his dream project of the Amaravati capital city, with workers and engineers on the ground saying they have received directions to that end.
With the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) returning to power for a third term and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) emerging as a key pillar of the ruling coalition, there are signs of a thaw in the relationship between TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu and Andhra Pradesh BJP president Dr Daggubati Purandeswari who is also Naidu’s sister-in-law.
Two-time MPs Gangapuram Kishan Reddy (63) and Bandi Sanjay Kumar (52) – from Telangana’s Secunderabad and Karimnagar respectively – are set to be inducted as Union ministers on Sunday, when the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government’s council of ministers take oath.
Two members of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) are set to be sworn in as Union ministers in the NDA government on Sunday evening.
TheTelugu Desam Party will ensure that decisions on contentious issues such as delimitation and the Uniform Civil Code are not taken unilaterally, nor would the reservation of any community be taken away, party leader and N Chandrababu Naidu’s son N Lokesh Naidu has told The Indian Express.
The Chandrababu Naidu-led TDP swept the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, storming back to power in the state. Fighting these polls in alliance with the BJP and the Pawan Kalyan-led JanaSena Party (JSP), the TDP bagged 16 Lok Sabha seats out of the 17 it contested, emerging as a key player on the national stage. Here is a lowdown on all the newly-elected TDP MPs, who are set to play a crucial role in the new BJP-led NDA dispensation at the Centre.