Telugu Desam Party
| Telugu Desam Party తెలుగు దేశం పార్టీ |
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| Party leader | N. Chandrababu Naidu |
| founding | March 21, 1982 |
| Alignment | Regionalism , Telugu nationalism |
| Website | www.telugudesam.org |
The Telugu Desam Party ( Telugu తెలుగు దేశం పార్టీ , "Telugu Country and People's Party", TDP ) is a regional party in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana .
Party history
The TDP was founded on March 21, 1982 by NT Rama Rao ("NTR"), a well-known and popular film actor and director in South India. The vast majority of the nearly 300 films in which NT Rama Rao was involved were made in Telugu and only a few in Tamil or Hindi . In these films, Rao often personified Hindu deities and was worshiped for them by viewers. He thus earned the reputation of a prominent representative of Telugic culture. NTR was chairman of the TDP until 1995. His successor as party leader was N. Chandrababu Naidu , who is still in office today (as of December 2018).
Programmatically, the TDP sees itself as a representative of the political, cultural and economic interests of the Telugu-speaking population of Andhra Pradesh. According to her party program she aims to establish a social welfare state for all social classes and for all ethnic groups in Andhra Pradesh. The TDP does not see itself as the primary Hindu party, but also addresses the Muslim and Christian minorities in Andhra Pradesh. The party program places particular emphasis on the promotion and development of agriculture and the training of young people.
Only 9 months after the party was founded, the TDP won the elections for the Andhra Pradesh parliament. The main political opponent was (and is still today) the Congress Party, which had dominated Andhra Pradesh until then . The TDP provided the Chief Minister and the government in Andhra Pradesh from 1983 to 1989 and from 1994 to 2004 .
In the nationwide elections for Lok Sabha , the Indian lower house, the TDP joined changing party alliances, initially on the left. From 1989 to 1996 she was a member of the National Front under the leadership of Janata Dal , which formed the Indian government from 1989 to 1990. Between 1996 and 1998 she was part of the United Front . In the 1999 and 2004 elections , she supported the center-right coalition of the National Democratic Alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In the 2009 election she entered into an electoral alliance with the left-wing socialist communist parties of the Third Front . In the 2014 election , after some hesitation, the TDP entered into an electoral alliance with the BJP. For a long time there were substantive differences between the BJP and the TDP on the Telangana question, ie the formation of a separate state Telangana from parts of Andhra Pradesh. The TDP initially spoke out against it, the BJP was in favor.
The main opponent in all elections was always the Congress Party, but since 2011 also increasingly the newly founded YSR Congress Party , and in Telangana the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). In the regional elections to the parliament of Telangana on December 7, 2018, the TDS entered into an electoral alliance with the Congress Party against the ruling TRS. However, the election was lost for the allies and the TDS was reduced from 15 to only 2 members (out of 119) in the Telangana parliament, so that its sphere of activity has since been largely limited to Andhra Pradesh in the post-2014 borders.
On March 16, 2018, the TDP terminated the joint coalition with the BJP. The main reason given was Prime Minister Modi's refusal to provide Andhra Pradesh with special funds from Delhi after the secession of Telangana, as requested by the TDP.
Previous election results
The following table shows the election results in all-India elections (election to Lok Sabha) and in elections to the parliament of Andhra Pradesh.
| year | choice | Parliament seats |
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| 1983 | Parliamentary election in Andhra Pradesh 1983 |
201/294 |
| 1984 |
 Elected Lok Sabha in 1984
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30/514 |
| 1985 | General election in Andhra Pradesh 1985 |
202/294 |
| 1989 |
Elected Lok Sabha in 1989
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2/529 |
| 1989 | Parliamentary election in Andhra Pradesh 1989 |
74/294 |
| 1991 |
Election for Lok Sabha in 1991
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13/521 |
| 1994 | Parliamentary election in Andhra Pradesh 1994 |
216/294 |
| 1996 |
Elected Lok Sabha 1996
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16/543 |
| 1998 |
Election for Lok Sabha in 1998
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12/543 |
| 1999 |
Election for Lok Sabha 1999
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29/543 |
| 1999 | General election in Andhra Pradesh 1999 |
180/294 |
| 2004 |
Election for Lok Sabha 2004
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5/543 |
| 2004 | Parliamentary election in Andhra Pradesh 2004 |
47/294 |
| 2009 |
Election for Lok Sabha 2009
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6/543 |
| 2009 | General election in Andhra Pradesh 2009 |
92/294 |
| 2014 |
Election for Lok Sabha 2014
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16/543 |
| 2014 | General election in Andhra Pradesh 2014 |
117/294 |
Web links
- Telugu Desam Party website (English / telugu)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Founder - Dr Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (NTR). (No longer available online.) September 11, 2007, archived from the original on April 7, 2014 ; accessed on April 4, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c About Telugu Desam Party. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 13, 2007 ; accessed on April 4, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ CR Gowri Shanker: Elections 2014: Telugu Desam Party seals deal with BJP. deccanchronicle.com, April 1, 2014, accessed April 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Putting Telangana row behind, TDP joins hands with BJP. rediff.com, March 28, 2014, accessed October 4, 2014 .
- ^ TDP chief offers solutions to people issues. (No longer available online.) Telugudesam.org, January 16, 2013, archived from the original on April 7, 2014 ; accessed on April 5, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ TDP eyes alliance with Third Front, keeps BJP hanging. rediff.com, September 23, 2013, accessed April 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Telangana Result Status. Election Commission of India, accessed December 22, 2018 .
- ^ Nidhi Sethi: 5 Reasons Why Chandrababu Naidu Exited NDA Government. NDTV, March 16, 2018, accessed on February 21, 2019 .
- ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on December 22, 2018 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
- ↑ This figure reflects the results in Andhra Pradesh before the separation of Telangana on June 2, 2014. Of the 117 MPs, 102 of 175 were from Andhra ( Seemandhra ) and 15 out of 119 from Telangana.
