Politics of Andhra Pradesh - Second Breakup of The Telugu Desam

Second Breakup of The Telugu Desam

When NTR became the Chief minister in 1994, he appointed one of his sons-in-law Nara Chandrababu Naidu as the Revenue Minister. Soon after the formation of the government in response to the growing influence of Lakshmi Parvati on the political decisions of NTR, Chandrababu Naidu convinced a majority of the TDP MLAs to elect him as the chief minister. Since most of the legislators had gone over to his side, the Anti Defection Law did not apply and the Telugu Desam Party label passed on to the Chandrababu Naidu faction. The NTR faction became TDP (NTR). NTR died on January 18, 1996 and Lakshmi Parvati succeeded him as the head of TDP (NTR) which no longer had any representation in the state legislature. Chandrababu Naidu's TDP won the next election of 1999 and he was the Chief Minister for 9 years until 2004, when it was defeated by the Indian National Congress whose state leader Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy became the chief minister.