<p>Chief minister <a href="http://www.wionews.com/india-news/nda-indulging-in-mud-slinging-damaging-my-credibility-chandrababu-naidu-128380">Chandrababu Naidu led a cycle rally </a>in Amaravati today demanding "special status" for Andhra Pradesh which has become a bone of contention between the state and Centre in the past month.</p>

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<p>The Telugu Desam Party(TDP) chief conducted a cycle rally to the Secretariat with several party workers joining him as the issue of "special status" to Andhra Pradesh continued to keep gather pace in the state.</p>

<p>Last month Naidu had pulled out his party leaders &nbsp;Ashok Gajapathi Raju who held the civil aviation cabinet post and &nbsp;Y S Chowdary who was minister of state in science and technology post while severing ties with the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre.</p>

<p>Several TDP members including Chandrababu Naidu have taken up the cause of "special status" in Parliament raising protests in both Houses. However, the Centre has refused to comply with TDP's protests with finance minister Jaitley rejecting the idea.</p>


Last month Naidu had pulled out his party leaders Ashok Gajapathi Raju and Y S Chowdary from the Union cabinet.

Chief minister Chandrababu Naidu led a cycle rally in Amaravati today demanding "special status" for Andhra Pradesh which has become a bone of contention between the state and Centre in the past month. #WATCH Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu leads cycle rally to Secretariat, demanding Special Category Status for AP from Centre pic.twitter.com/wIN62FD5Hj — ANI (@ANI) April 6, 2018 × The Telugu Desam Party(TDP) chief conducted a cycle rally to the Secretariat with several party workers joining him as the issue of "special status" to Andhra Pradesh continued to keep gather pace in the state. Last month Naidu had pulled out his party leaders Ashok Gajapathi Raju who held the civil aviation cabinet post and Y S Chowdary who was minister of state in science and technology post while severing ties with the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre. Several TDP members including Chandrababu Naidu have taken up the cause of "special status" in Parliament raising protests in both Houses. However, the Centre has refused to comply with TDP's protests with finance minister Jaitley rejecting the idea.

Watch: CM Chandrababu Naidu leads cycle rally over special status to Andhra Pradesh

<p>After weeks of wrangling<a href="http://www.wionews.com/india-news/chandrababu-naidu-led-tdp-to-pull-out-of-nda-report-35985"> with the NDA over special status</a> to Andhra, chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu&#39;s Telugu Desam Party(TDP) finally decided to pull out of the BJP-led NDA coalition at the Centre.</p>

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<p>The decision came after CM Chandrababu Naidu&#39;s tele-conference with party members on Friday morning.</p>

<p>The party has gone a step further and said it will support a no-confidence motion against the NDA in Lok Sabha along with other parties against the Centre today.</p>

<p>YSR Congress Party MP YV Subba Reddy in a letter has informed the Lok Sabha Secretary-General that his party would be moving a motion on &#39;No-Confidence in the Council of Ministers&#39; in the lower of Parliament today.</p>

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<p>The party politburo meeting was planned for Thursday evening, the decision to quit the ND was finally taken during Chandrababu&#39;s tele-conference with party leaders.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>TDP had already pulled out its ministers from the Union Cabinet - Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pasupati and MP YS Chowdary - after differences with the Centre over granting special status to the state, a move which would have given Andhra central funding a 90:10 ratio, with the centre paying the larger share.</p>

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The decision came after Chandrababu Naidu's tele-conference with party members on Friday morning.

After weeks of wrangling with the NDA over special status to Andhra, chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party(TDP) finally decided to pull out of the BJP-led NDA coalition at the Centre. × The decision came after CM Chandrababu Naidu's tele-conference with party members on Friday morning. The party has gone a step further and said it will support a no-confidence motion against the NDA in Lok Sabha along with other parties against the Centre today. YSR Congress Party MP YV Subba Reddy in a letter has informed the Lok Sabha Secretary-General that his party would be moving a motion on 'No-Confidence in the Council of Ministers' in the lower of Parliament today. Letter of YSR Congress Party MP YV Subba Reddy to Lok Sabha Secretary-General for moving motion on 'No-Confidence in the Council of Ministers' in the house. pic.twitter.com/FADQCKVOig — ANI (@ANI) March 16, 2018 × The party politburo meeting was planned for Thursday evening, the decision to quit the ND was finally taken during Chandrababu's tele-conference with party leaders. 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. TDP had already pulled out its ministers from the Union Cabinet - Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pasupati and MP YS Chowdary - after differences with the Centre over granting special status to the state, a move which would have given Andhra central funding a 90:10 ratio, with the centre paying the larger share. Our party will be moving no-confidence motion today (in Parliament). We have decided... we are out of the NDA: Thota Narsimhan, TDP MP pic.twitter.com/73StNsOjtF — ANI (@ANI) March 16, 2018 ×

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