A rocky road ahead in Andhra Pradesh for Chandrababu Naidu
Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu inspecting the Amaravati capital region. File
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N. Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) rode on an anti-incumbency wave to power, winning 135 of the 175 Assembly seats. The Pawan Kalyan-led Jana Sena Party (JSP) won 21 seats, while the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) secured 8 seats. Together, the three parties constituting the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) reduced the Jagan Mohan Reddy-YSR Congress Party just 11 seats. Mr. Reddy’s party, which had won 151 seats in the 2019 Assembly elections, did not even win enough seats to qualify for the status of Opposition party in the Assembly.Mr. Naidu, who had been written off some years ago, has proved his naysayers wrong, but chief ministership this time is not going to ...