Won’t join NDA for 2019 polls: Naidu

New Delhi, July 21

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday said his party will not join the NDA even if the BJP approaches it for the 2019 general elections.

He said the party’s no-confidence motion against the government was a battle of “morality versus majority”.

Asserting that the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) had joined the NDA in 2014 only to ensure justice to the people of the state, Naidu said: “We are not power hungry. We never aspired for cabinet berths. We waited four years for them (BJP government) to do justice to Andhra Pradesh, but they betrayed the people of the state. How can we be sure that they will not do it again.”

“The no-confidence motion was a battle between our morality and the majority of the BJP,” Naidu told a press conference here, as he thanked the other Opposition parties for supporting the TDP’s no-trust motion.

The NDA government on Friday defeated the no-confidence motion after a marathon debate that lasted for nearly 12 hours. When the division was held at 11.10 pm on Friday night, the ayes for the no-confidence were 126 and the noes 325. — PTI