A day after Election Commission announced the schedule for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a joint rally on Sunday with Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan at Boppudi village, near Chilakaluripet town in Andhra Pradesh’s Palnadu district.
This will be the first NDA rally in Andhra Pradesh after TDP’s return to the saffron fold.
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The ruling BJP has formed an alliance with TDP and Jana Sena Party to jointly contest the Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh.
As per their seat-sharing arrangement, the BJP will contest six Lok Sabha and 10 assembly seats while the TDP will fight in 17 parliamentary and 144 state seats.
Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena has been given two Lok Sabha seats and 21 assembly seats.
Andhra Pradesh will undergo state assembly polls from May 13 along with Lok Sabha polls. The results of both the Lok Sabha and the state assembly elections will be announced on June 4.
In the last assembly polls, YSRCP registered a landslide victory by winning 151 seats while the TDP could manage only 22 seats.
