The ruling TDP, an NDA ally, would support any no-confidence motion against the BJP-led government at the centre in the interest of Andhra Pradesh as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has meted out 'injustice' to the state, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said today.
Naidu stated this in the state assembly hours after YSR Congress, TDP's rival in the state, gave notice for moving a no-confidence motion against the Narendra Modi government, in the backdrop of the Centre's refusal to grant special category status to Andhra Pradesh.
"We will support a no-confidence motion, whoever moves it. We will be ready for that and our 16-17 MPs will fully support that. We will co-operate with whoever fights for the states rights," Naidu told the state Assembly.
His announcement came amid indications that the TDP, which recently pulled out its ministers from the Narendra Modi government, was toying with the idea of quitting the NDA.
An emergency meeting of the Telugu Desam Party politburo has been convened here tomorrow evening to take a call on the issue, party sources said.
In his statement in the assembly, Naidu said: I am telling this with pain and agony, 40 years of political experience and as peoples word. It is not good to play with the lives of people. If you sincerely move the no-trust motion, we will fully co-operate. If you do it by colluding, we will expose you, the TDP president warned the YSRC.
The YSRC is seeking to put the the TDP on the defensive by moving a no-confidence motion.
Refuting criticism against him that he was 'weak, the chief minister said: "Mine is dharma, mitra dharma. For four years I have been requesting the Centre but now, only under inevitable circumstances, I started fighting only to secure the states rights since the Prime Minister has meted out injustice."
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