Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday announced his party’s seat-sharing deal with the BJP for the Lok Sabha polls as well as the assembly elections in the state.
According to the announcement made by Naidu, TDP will contest on 17 seats out of a total of 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state, while the BJP will contest six seats. Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena Party will contest two seats in the coming general polls.
On the other hand, for the upcoming Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections, TDP will contest 144 seats, while the BJP and JSP will fight 10 and 21 seats in the state, respectively.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Jana Sena Party reached a “political understanding” for an alliance ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. This big announcement came after the second round of talks between the stakeholders was held on Saturday at Home Minister Amit Shah’s residence.