In a move that indicates the Telugu Desam Party would join the national opposition front against the BJP, Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu met Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Delhi on Thursday.
Positioning himself as the facilitator of the grand alliance against the BJP, Chandrababu also held parleys with Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar and National Conference chairman Farooq Abdullah in Delhi, and called a meeting of all non-BJP leaders to “save democracy, save country”.
The TDP and the Congress, rivals for over three decades, have already joined hands for the Telangana Assembly elections to defeat K Chandrashekar Rao’s TRS, and are likely to do the same for the Lok Sabha elections next year.