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Modi receives another blow

TDP quits India's ruling coalition

Our Correspondent, New Delhi
Two days after suffering defeat in three parliamentary bypolls, India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party got another jolt yesterday as its long-standing alliance partner Telugu Desam Party (TDP) decided to part ways with the saffron outift-led coalition and move a no-confidence motion against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The TDP, which rules southern state of Andhra Pradesh, said its actions are in protest against the "injustice” meted out to the state by the Modi government by refusing to give special category status to the state which would entitle it to more funds from the federal government as grants and not as loans.
Naidu had held a tele-conference with TDP lawmakers on Thursday during which he was understood to have said that there was a "strong anti-BJP" mood in the country as reflected in the results of three bypolls in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states on Wednesday.
On March 8, two TDP representatives in Modi government - P Ashok Gajapati Raju and Y S Chowdary — resigned as ministers after a meeting with the prime minister in protest against the federal government's refusal to grant special state category to Andhra Pradesh which would entitle it to more funds from the Modi government in the form of grants and not as loans.
The Telugu Desam Parliamentary Party will issue a notice to move the no-trust motion, party sources said. Meanwhile, another party of Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress, a breakaway group of Congress party, has submitted a notice for moving a no-confidence motion against the Modi government for its refusal to accord special category status to the state.
If the motion is admitted, which requires the support of
at least 50 lawmakers, it will be the first no-confidence motion during the tenure of the Modi government.
However, YSR Congress party has only nine lawmakers in the Lok Sabha where no-confidence motion is placed. TDP has 16 members in the Lok Sabha.
Meanwhile, BahujanSamaj Party chief Mayawati has said Bharatiya Janata Party may call for early parliamentary elections in the country after the saffron party's defeat in the three parliamentary bypolls in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar a couple of days ago.
"In Uttar Pradesh, we wanted to teach BJP a lesson and decided to support Samajwadi Party candidates so that it loses the seats earlier held by the chief minister and deputy chief minister... They have lost their sleep with this result," she told a BSP rally in Chandigarh on Thursday evening.
BJP lost to SP in both Gorakhpur and Phulpur, the Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh vacated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and by his Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya respectively when they were elected to the legislative council. The BJP also lost the Lok Sabha bypoll in Araria in Bihar.
"With yesterday's result, there is great possibility that BJP will advance the Lok Sabha polls, which are otherwise to be held in 2019," Mayawati said.
The party, she added, may hold Lok Sabha polls along with assembly elections in seven-eight states.