N Chandrababu Naidu was today re-elected as the leader of 90-member Telugu Desam Legislature Party in Andhra Pradesh.
Naidu, who will continue as the Leader of the Opposition in the 294-member State Assembly, was unanimously elected by the party MLAs at a meeting here.
The name of the 60-year-old former chief minister was proposed by senior MLA Ashok Gajpathi Raju and seconded by another legislator Satyavathi Rathod and was unanimously approved by all the newly-elected MLAs.
The TDP has promised to play a constructive role as an Opposition party in the state where Congress retained power in the just-concluded Assembly elections.
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