At Chandrababu Naidu Meet Today, Focus On Future With BJP Amid Complaints

Since Chandrababu Naidu took charge as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh four years ago, his ties with the BJP have soured.

Hyderabad: Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the BJP's biggest ally in the South, will today hold a crucial meeting in Vijayawada amid a string of recent remarks by the party threatening a break-up. 

Today's "emergency meeting" comes on the back of the TDP expressing its "extreme disappointment" over Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's Budget which, it said, had ignored the needs of Andhra Pradesh.

Chandrababu Naidu yesterday said... if he decides, then we will resign and come out," TDP parliamentarian Rayapati Sambasiva Rao said on Saturday.

The TDP had also sided with the opposition in the Rajya Sabha - where the BJP-led government does not have a majority - to back calls for referring the Triple Talaq bill to a select committee.