When the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) last week approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) to register its reservations over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, thus adding its voice to the Opposition, many said relations between the TDP and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had begun to unravel and it was just a matter of time before the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would come unstuck. The TDP’s 16 members of Parliament are crucial for the NDA government, given that at 293 the alliance is just 21 seats more than the majority mark of 272.
While that could
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