The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Wednesday night announced its decision to pull out of the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, with two of the party's ministers resigning from the Union Cabinet on Thursday. The N Chandrababu Naidu-led party took the decision protesting the Centre's refusal to grant Special Category Status to Andhra Pradesh, saying that the Centre had done injustice to the state. On Thursday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministers in the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet submitted their resignation in the chief minister's office in Amaravati.
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