BJP to spread in Andhra Pradesh : Venkaiah Naidu

Amaravati, May 21: The Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting M Venkaiah Naidu has addressed in Amaravati on Saturday, The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will review its connection with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in 2019.

"This is 2017. We will see in 2019 what the situation is and then take a call. At the same time, we will expand our party in the state," the Information and Broadcasting minister told reporters in Amaravati.

Venkaiah Naidu's comment assumes significance as the BJP's Telangana unit has already announced severing ties with the TDP in the new state while the relationship here has remained fragile in the last three years.



However, The major portion of BJP in Andhra Pradesh also wants to break the friendship forged in 2014 and had been openly critical of the TDP.

BJP team told that "The TDP needs the BJP more than the other way round. But the tie-up is proving a liability for us because of the gross bad governance of Chandrababu Naidu".