Naidu holds crucial meeting to discuss TDP's ties with BJP

February 04, 2018 13:21

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu is holding a crucial meeting with the party MPs, senior MLAs and leaders in Amaravati on Sunday.

The meeting was reportedly called to review the party's ties with its ally Bharatiya Janata Party.

Naidu is apparently upset with the saffron party over the poor allocation for the state in the Union Budget 2018 that was presented on February 1 by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

"We are discussing about budget. Political alliance is different and state government development is different", party leader K.Rammohan Rao told media.

"Whatever the chief minister decides we will stand by it. But we are not happy with the BJP budget, not happy with the budget allotted to Andhra Pradesh. We MPs are ready to resign, but we are bound by the chief minister's decision," said TDP MP Pandula Ravindra Babu told ANI.

Hours after Jaitley presented the budget, the TDP summoned an emergency meeting of the party MPs to discuss the next course of action.

"We are going to declare war (on the BJP). We now have three options. One is to try and continue. The second is that our MPs resign and the third is breaking off this alliance. We will decide (our course of action) in a meeting with CM Naidu on Sunday," TDP MP TG Venkatesh had said. -- ANI

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