New Delhi: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu Saturday announced that his party and Pawan Kalyan's JanaSena had finalised an alliance with BJP in what he called was a win-win situation for both the country and the southern state.
Naidu's remarks came after he held a second round of talks with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda earlier in the day as the two parties worked to seal their alliance for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Lok Sabha and assembly polls will be held simultaneously in Andhra Pradesh.
"It will be a sweep," Naidu said on Lok Sabha, Andhra Pradesh Assembly poll prospects of TDP-BJP-JanaSena alliance. "Andhra Pradesh has been destroyed badly. BJP, TDP coming together win-win situation for country, state," Naidu was quoted saying by PTI after the meeting. He confirmed that BJP, TDP, JanaSena have come to understanding for alliance in polls.
The three parties, in a joint statement issued later in the day, said the alliance was stitched to "bolster the progress" of Andhra Pradesh and its people, and the seat-sharing modalities would be deliberated in a day or two.
"We hope that the alliance will come up to the expectation of the people of Andhra Pradesh with their wholehearted support," BJP president J P Nadda, TDP's Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena Party's (JSP) Pawan Kalyan said in the joint statement.
They said that under the dynamic and visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the three parties have decided to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha and Andhra Pradesh assembly elections together as they are committed to the progress of the country and the upliftment of the state and its people.
The statement said that Prime Minister Modi has been working tirelessly for the development and progress of the nation for the last 10 years and the coming together of the BJP with the TDP and the JSP will help achieve the aspirations of the people of Andhra Pradesh.
"The BJP and the TDP have a very old relationship together. The TDP joined the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) in 1996 and has worked together successfully in governments led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Narendra Modi," it added.
In 2014, the TDP and the BJP fought the Lok Sabha polls and assembly elections together, while the JSP had supported the 2014 general and assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh.
Earlier in the day, Rebel YSR Congress Party MP K Raghu Rama Krishna Raju said the coming together of the BJP, TDP, and JanaSena Party was essential to rid the state of the "devil" ruling it -- a swipe at Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy-led party. Naidu, a former Andhra Pradesh chief minister, and JanaSena chief Pawan Kalyan had met Shah and Nadda on Thursday too.
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