He asked his partymen to be one in facing the BJP challenge. Naidu told the Andhra Assembly that the TDP's withdrawal from the NDA was not taken for selfish reasons but in the interest of the state on which injustice has been committed by the BJP. But the Congress said it has always supported the demand for special category status for Andhra Pradesh, an issue on which the TDP quit the NDA.

The Congress and the AIADMK didn't make it clear whether they would support the motion.

Subba Reddy of the YSR Congress tabled the no-confidence motions with the Lok Sabha Secretary General, drawing instant support from opposition parties like the Trinamool, CPI-M and AIMIM. The TDP is the first party to leave the coalition since it came to power at the Centre in 2014. On March 8, the TDP had pulled out its two Ministers - Ashok Gajapathi Raju and Y.S. The TDP decision - two days after the BJP lost both the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh and one in Bihar - came as a game of one upmanship went on with its rival in Andhra, the YSRCP, which has also tabled a similar motion in the Lok Sabha. On its own, the BJP has 274 members - well above the halfway mark to prove its majority. On a rough count, the ruling NDA - minus TDP - appears to have the support of 315 members in a House with an effective strength of 538.

The Modi government, however, said it had the numbers in Parliament to defeat the motion. Chandrababu Naidu held a politburo meeting through teleconferencing with his MPs in Delhi. The TDP with 16 MPs in the Lok Sabha - the second biggest ally of the BJP after the Shiv Sena (18) - announced the decision to exit from the NDA after Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. New Delhi/Amaravati: In a major setback to the BJP, the TDP on Friday quit the NDA and tabled a no-confidence motion against the Modi government over its refusal to grant special category status to Andhra Pradesh, a move that may herald a new political alignment before the next year Lok Sabha polls.

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