Opposition parties express their support for TDP's no-confidence motion against Centre

On the same day that Telugu Desam Party (TDP) unanimously agreed to quit the NDA alliance, the party wrote to the Lok Sabha Secretary-General on moving a no-confidence motion in the Parliament today against the Centre.

The move comes a day after TDP chief and Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu agreed that his party would support a no-trust vote from YSR Congress against the Modi government.

Telugu Desam Party has decided to officially exit the National Democratic Alliance due to failure in fulfilling the promises made in the State Reorganisation Act.
This decision was taken unanimously, in a teleconference with Politburo members, today.

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Support started to flow in from all corners especially from Opposition parties. Some of them were CPI(M), Samajwadi party and TMC. Congress was one of the first parties that said it would support TDP's no-confidence motion in the House. Sources in Congress said if the motion is admitted and gets accepted in the House, then it would support the proposal.

While party president Rahul Gandhi had earlier said his party was in support of Andhra Pradesh being granted special category status, senior party leader Mallikarjun Kharge reiterated the same thing again today.

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We have been supporting Special Category Status for AP since the beginning. We want that people of AP to get justice. When no-confidence motion is moved you have to talk about government's failures, we contacting a lot of people: Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress in Delhi pic.twitter.com/NlIH4epYiT

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Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also tweeted her support for the TDP's motion. "I welcome the TDP's decision to leave the NDA. The current situation warrants such action to save the country from disaster," she tweeted.

I welcome the TDP's decision to leave the NDA. The current situation warrants such action to save the country from disaster

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CPI(M)'s Sitaram Yechury expressed his support saying that it was inexcusable that Andhra Pradesh was not granted special category status. "CPI(M) supports the no-confidence motion being brought against the BJP government. Its betrayal of the promise of special status for Andhra Pradesh is inexcuseable. Its all-round failure and evasion of parliamentary accountability needs to be highlighted," he tweeted.

All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen Party (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi said his party would support the motion over the failure of the Modi government to implement the State Reorganisation Act in addition to other things.

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CPI(M) supports no-confidence motion being brought against BJP govt. Its betrayal of the promise of special status for Andhra Pradesh is inexcusable. Its all-round failure & evasion of parliamentary accountability needs to be highlighted, tweets CPI(M)'s Sitaram Yechury(File Pic) pic.twitter.com/HRCxsvffcs

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"MIM party will support the No Confidence motion in Lok Sabha today not only for failure on part of Modi Govt to implement State Reorganisation Act but failure to fulfill their promise to provide employment to youth & for injustice to Muslim Women and Minorities," Owaisi said.

TDP has recently been in the limelight as it had openly expressed its displeasure over the Modi government's failure to grant the state of Andhra Pradesh special category status.

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