In 2014, Telugu Desam Party’s (TDP) N. Chandrababu Naidu stormed into power in Andhra Pradesh and became the Chief Minister of the State for the third time. He had defeated his closest rival Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP).
But at that time he rode the ‘Modi’ wave, as TDP had fought the election in alliance with the BJP and actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena Party (JSP) and he was part of the NDA.
Again for the upcoming General and Assembly elections, the same combination is back as Mr. Naidu had quit the alliance over differences that cropped up on the agreement of allotting Special Category Status (SCS).
