తెలుగుదేశం పార్టీ ,

తెలుగు దేశం పార్టీ

TELUGU DESAM PARTY

లీడర్
N. Chandrababu Naidu
Founded
1982
Headquarters
Road No.2, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad-500033
Alliance
recently broke with NDA
Political ideology
Regionalist, Fiscally Conservative
Website
http://www.telugudesamparty.org
See also the politics of India series
Telugu Desam Party (Telugu :తెలుగు దేశం Party for Telugu Land and people) or TDP is a regional political party in India's Andhra Pradesh state. It was founded by former Telugu film star N.T. Rama Rao on March 29, 1982. Mr. Rama Rao wanted an alternative to the ruling Congress Party in the state.
In the 13th Lok Sabha (1999-2004), it was the fourth largest party with 29 members.
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NTR's era
NTR, also known as ANNA (elder brother), toured the state extensively in what was called Chaitanya Ratham (literally - a Chariot which spreads awareness), his "election vehicle", and made use of the immense popularity of his on-screen movie image (his image in roles of Hindu mythological dieties- Rama, Krishna etc) to win the next election. The party was voted into power in a record nine months after its establishment on March 29, 1982. TDP also won 30 (out of 42) Lok Sabha seats in the 1984 Indian elections. This made TDP the largest opposition party in the Lok Sabha as the Indian National Congress won more than 400 (out of about 500) seats to win the election. This was the first time that any regional party became the largest opposition party in India.
The TDP was voted to power in the State of Andhra Pradesh in 1983. During his first term, Rama Rao introduced many populist measures like selling a kilogram of rice for Rs.2.
In 1994, N.T. Rama Rao gave up his sanyasa and married a student of political history who had come to write his biography. In this period he also played a significant role in national politics by pledging support to the then prime Ministers V.P. Singh and Chandra Shekhar (who formed coalition governments in the absence of absolute majority for their respective parties).
TDP returned to power in 1994 by winning 213 Assembly seats out of 295 seats. Rama Rao was elected to be the Chief Minister for the second time, but his governing cabinet and family suffered from what many political observers saw, as "unconstitutional interference in affairs" by his second wife. In 1995, Nara Chandrababu Naidu, finance minister and the third son-in-law of NTR (who is married to NTR's daughter- Bhuvaneswari, through his(NTR's) first wife (Bhasava Tharakam)) overthrew Rama Rao's government by gathering a majority of the MLAs in September 1995. The overwhelming consensus against his group led the Election Commission to recognize a break-away faction under the party's original name. NTR, the founder of the party, had to rename what was left of the party as "NTR TDP". He vowed to go to the people, seeking a fresh mandate after this humiliation. However, within a year, he died of a heart attack on January 18,1996.
On October 9, 2008, TDP announced a major shift in its policy towards Telangana. The politburo of TDP, after long rounds of discussion, decided that it would favour a separate state for Telangana fearing that it would lose the elections. Previously, TDP strongly opposed the separate state as it stood for a unified Andhra Pradesh

[edit] TDP BACK TO Basics
TDP lost its power to Congress in the 2004 State elections. It was a great win for the Congress in last 25 years. TDP is back to basics and is concentrating on strengthening the route level.TDP also has announced the most disgusting of elction manifesto which promises Color Televison to the people of state if it is voted back to power at a stage where people are dying of starvation and lack of basic ammenities. TDP formed "Maha Kutami" in state level and "Third Front" in national level as the alternative to UPA and NDA. TDP launched a new wing for IT and Non IT professionals named as TSNV. It is the first professional wing of any Indian party. The main motto of TSNV is to bring the professionals into main stream politics thought there is no concrete proof as to how many professionals have been brought into the mainstream politics.
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