In yet another sign of NDA bonhomie, Chandrababu to attend NTR coin ceremony

In yet another sign of NDA bonhomie,  Chandrababu to attend NTR coin ceremony

New Delhi

 
TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu will be in the national capital on Monday, Aug 28, to lodge a complaint against the YSRCP government in Andhra Pradesh.

He is also likely to attend the grand Coin Release function by President Draupadi Murmu in honour of legendary Telegu film icon and former chief minister N T Rama Rao (NTR).

The coin, adorned with a portrait of NTR, will mark the centenary celebrations of NTR; and the ceremony is likely to take place at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Much political significance is being given to N Chandrababu's visit and attending the ceremony.

Naidu is the son-in-law of NTR. Interestingly, BJP has recently appointed 
former Union Minister Daggubati Purandeswari as Andhra Pradesh BJP president.

She is the daughter of late N.T. Rama Rao. Both Naidu and his sister-in-law Ms Purandeswari have reportedly buried their earlier political differences. "Unlike the past, their relationship has improved and now they can work together," a source in TDP said.
 
Chandrababu Naidu during his stay in Delhi will meet the Chief Election Commissioner and lodge a formal complaint on the "illegal deletion of names of voters" from the electoral rolls in Andhra Pradesh.

Telugu Desam sources say that Naidu is responding to a series of complaints from the party leaders from 

several districts on deletion of names of party supporters from the electoral rolls. 

Naidu will submit to CEC details on how such names were getting deleted and also how bogus voters with fake 

door numbers and addresses were being enrolled 

 

TDP supremo Naidu, who was once architect of United Front politics in the 1990s, has stayed away

from the Opposition I.N.D.I.A combine. Interestingly in Andhra Pradesh, the Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSRCP

has been cooperating with the Modi government in Parliament. Its support is especially crucial in the

Rajya Sabha.

But politically, the BJP wants to expand base in Andhra Pradesh and does not mind sharing workload

and credit with the Naidu-led TDP.

In 2014 both state assembly polls and in the Lok Sabha polls, TDP and BJP had contested in alliance.

TDP lawmakers had joined the Modi cabinet too but in 2018 in the run up to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls,

the TDP quit NDA protesting non granting of special category status to Andhra Pradesh.

The TDP also moved a no-confidence motion against the NDA government in 2018 and launched a ‘dharma poratam’ or ‘fight for justice’.

In 2019 polls, Naidu had suffered humiliating defeats and since then has been facing the adverse political onslaught from the YSRCP regime headed by Jagan Mohan Reddy.

Lately, TDP has inched closer to the BJP.  In June, Naidu held a crucial and closed door meeting with Home Minister Amit Shah and also BJP national president J P Nadda. The BJP appointed NTR's daughter as state unit president only after these meetings. Of course, both TDP and BJP share same anti-Congress DNA and that's certainly a good meeting ground.