TDP: Will rally regional parties to oust BJP

​Amaravati: The Telugu Desam Party will soon be stepping up efforts to ensure that an alliance of regional parties will take shape to emerge as an alternative to the BJP.

The outcome of the recent by elections in which the BJP had suffered reverses has come as a shot in the arm for TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu to make the necessary moves for the regional parties to come together.

Naidu's decision comes in the wake a resolution adopted at the recently held Mahanadu where the party wanted him to play a crucial role at the centre to keep the BJP at the bay after 2019 elections. The party wanted Naidu to act as a fulcrum for the formation of the alliance of regional parties with a common minimum programme acceptable to the people across the nation.

As it is too early, Naidu has not yet spoken his mind out as to how he was going about in stitching the alliance, but he was categorical that he would play a role. He however made it clear on more than one occasion that he would only facilitate formation of an alliance and would lead one since he never aspired any position at the national level.

At a recent press conference too, Naidu had said that though on two occasions in the past he had an opportunity to emerge as force at the Centre, he politely declined occupy any position since his interests basically lay in Andhra Pradesh.

Naidu said he did not veer away from this stand even now and that his only aim was to end the BJP's suzerainty at the Centre.

Since Naidu played a role in keeping parties together at the national level in the past, his experience in finding where there are grey areas would come in handy for the upkeep of the overall health of the coalitions.

An alliance of such parties would be helpful in protection of interests of people back home in their respective states and at the same could show the way forward for the country at national level.

What Naidu wants is that the leaders of all regional parties should join hands at the national level so that they could safeguard the interests of people back in their home states.

" I want all the parties on one platform. For instance, Chief Ministers Mamata Banerjee, K Chandrasekhar Rao, Aravind Kejriwal, Navin Patnaik and all the other leaders opposed to the BJP, could join forces to throw the BJP out at the Centre," Naidu said.