Telugu Desam Party

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Telugu Desam Party.Pedala Party
Leader Nara Chandrababu Naidu
Founder Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao
Leader in Lok Sabha Nama Nageswara Rao
Leader in Rajya Sabha Tulla Devender Goud
Founded 29 March 1982 (1982-03-29)
Headquarters NTR Bhavan, Road No.2, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad - 500034[1]
Ideology Populist
Regionalist
Social liberalist
Political position Centre-left
Colours Yellow  
ECI Status State party[2]
Alliance National Front (1989-1996)
United Front (1996-1998)
NDA (1999-2005)
Third Front (2009-present)
Seats in Lok Sabha
6 / 545
Seats in Rajya Sabha
5 / 245
Seats in Legislative Assembly
81 / 294
Election symbol
ECI-bicycle.png
Website
www.telugudesam.org

Politics of India
Political parties
Elections

Telugu Desam Party (Telugu: తెలుగు దేశం పార్టీ) (lit. Party for Telugu Land and People), abbreviated as TDP, is a regional political party in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The party was founded by Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao ("NTR") on 29 March 1982. Since 1995, the party is headed by Nara Chandrababu Naidu, the incumbent Leader of Opposition in the Andhra Pradesh State Assembly. The party's headquarters is located at NTR Bhavan in the Banjara Hills locality of Hyderabad.

The party stormed to power within nine months of its formation in the 1983 Assembly elections, thus forming the first non-Congress government in Andhra Pradesh.[3] It also achieved the rare distinction of being the first regional party to become the main opposition party in the Central Government during the 8th Lok Sabha from 1984 to 1989.[4] The party has governed the state of Andhra Pradesh twice from 1983 to 1989 and then from 1994 to 2004.

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Assembly Election History [edit]

Year General Election Seats Won
1983 7th Assembly 204
1985 8th Assembly 202[5]
1989 9th Assembly 74
1994 10th Assembly 225
1999 11th Assembly 180
2004 12th Assembly 47
2009 13th Assembly.[6] 92

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ "Election Commission of India". 
  3. ^ List of Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh
  4. ^ Indian general election, 1984
  5. ^ http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/ElectionStatistics.aspx
  6. ^ http://www.aplegislature.org/overview

External links [edit]

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