(Online Desk)

In what comes as a major blow to the BJP government at the Centre, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Friday decided to quit the NDA, days after two of its ministers resigned from the Modi government following the Centre's refusal to grant Special Category Status to Andhra Pradesh.

The party will also move a no-confidence motion against the Modi government over the injustice meted out to the state, said an official communique. The Telugu Desam Parliamentary Party will issue a notice to move the no-trust motion today, it further added.

Though the party politburo meeting to decide over quitting the NDA was planned for this evening, the formality was completed during the daily tele-conference CM Chandrababu holds with party leaders in the morning, reported PTI.

The TDP will write a letter to BJP president Amit Shah and also other constituents of the NDA informing its decision and the reasons for it, the release said.

Chandrababu Naidu explains exit from NDA

Chandrababu Naidu speaking in the Andhra Pradesh assembly said the decision to quit NDA was not for selfish reasons but for the interest of the state.

" For 4-years I made all efforts, went to Delhi 29 times, asked many times. This was centre's last budget & there was no mention of AP, we had to pull our ministers out of cabinet", the TDP leader said.

Lok Sabha adjourned: No-confidence motion received, but it cannot be brought to the House if it is not in order, says Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and adjourns Lok Sabha till Monday without over opposition protests.

TDP's no-trust motion get state Cong unit support:  Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president N Raghuveera Reddy has extended his support to the no-confidence motion against the Centre by Telugu Desam Party and YSR Congress Party, reported ANI.

"We have been supporting Special Category Status for AP since the beginning. We want that people of AP to get justice. When no-confidence motion is moved you have to talk about government's failures, we contacting a lot of people," senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge.

"Our commitment to people of AP continues and this government has no business to take away that right of ours. It is only right that we fight collectively, it is the principle we are fighting on. Centre has exposed itself and that it does not stand by any ally," said Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury.

'TDP exit is a timely opportunity for BJP to grow in AP': Reacting to the exiting, former cabinet minister Y S Chowdary told ANI, "It is unfortunate. We tried our best to be together but the present government ignored the sentiments & emotions of people of Andhra Pradesh, Emergency politburo was conducted in which TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu took decision to withdraw from NDA."