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Vishakhapatnam: TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh, the son of party supremo N Chandrababu Naidu, said on Friday his party is committed to retaining the 4 percent reservation granted to the Muslim community under the OBC list. TDP\u2019s NDA ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party had attacked the governments in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka for providing reservation on religious grounds.<\/p>\n
Nara Lokesh said a nation or a state cannot progress if a particular section of the society lives in poverty. He said it is the government\u2019s responsibility to expose the under-represented communities to opportunities. He said the decision to grant reservation to Muslims wasn\u2019t taken to appease anyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe decision to give 4 percent reservation to Muslims was taken in that perspective, not to appease anyone or get political gains,\u201d he told TOI.<\/p>\n
The TDP\u2019s stupendous performance in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections have placed N Chandrababu Naidu in the position of the proverbial kingmaker. With 16 seats in his kitty, Naidu\u2019s support to Narendra Modi is indispensable for the Bharatiya Janata Party for government formation.<\/p>\n
The Bharatiya Janata Party won 240 Lok Sabha seats, which is 32 short of the majority mark. For the first time since 2014, the BJP will have to depend on its allies \u2014 mainly TDP and JD(U) \u2014 to remain in power.<\/p>\n
Pulling off a stunning comeback after being written off by pollsters, the INDIA bloc won 234 seats.<\/p>\n
Nara Lokesh told PTI that his party would support Narendra Modi unconditionally.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe joined NDA unconditionally before elections; we will continue to be in NDA unconditionally\u2026 We believe that he (Modi) should be the Prime Minister of India and there is no second thought about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He, however, stressed building \u201ca symbiotic relationship\u201d between Andhra Pradesh and the Centre.<\/p>\n
Indicating that the TDP would press for its demands using its support as leverage, he said there would be 100 things such as Agniveer, Uniform Civil Code, reservations, allocation of budgets, development, which could be negotiated across a table.<\/p>\n
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