Naidu has a lot to answer, says Congress after TDP joins NDA along with Pawan Kalyan's party
Hindustan TimesAfter Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam and Pawan Kalyan's Jana Sena party on Saturday joined the NDA for the upcoming Lok Sabha election and the assembly election in Andhra Pradesh, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said it was a shameless act on part of the TDP. In 2018, TDP walked out of the NDA "because of the Prime Minister's failure to give Andhra Pradesh its due through special category status for the state", Jairam Ramesh said adding that now the TDP has shamelessly gone back to the NDA though in the last six years, PM Modi continued to fail the people of Andhra Pradesh. Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam, Pawan Kalyan's Jana Sena Party will fight the election together with the BJP. “TDP joined NDA in 1996 and has worked together successfully in Atal Ji's and Narendra Modi Ji's government In 2014, the TDP and the BJP fought the Lok Sabha election and the assembly election together,” it said.