speculation is rife over a BJP-TDP tussle over more cabinet berths and Lok Sabha Speaker's chair, BJP's Andhra Pradesh unit president Daggubati Purandeswari maintained that the TDP-JanaSena-BJP alliance is a «case study» in how coalitions should work and that it will hold strong both at the state and Centre level.
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The state president said so even though the BJP was a late entrant to the alliance and Pawan Kalyan-led JanaSena Party had already taken the lead stitching up a partnership with the TDP in 2023 while Chandrababu Naidu was in jail.
«BJP joined the alliance much later, in January-February this year. However, we have excellent coordination mechanisms in the alliance at all levels, from assembly to parliamentary constituency levels. This has helped immensely in ensuring a consolidated electoral approach and will certainly also ensure a comprehensive governance approach. In fact, I would term this alliance a case study in itself,» Purandeswari told ET in New Delhi.
«The reason for the synergy is also because the alliance partners are similar in terms of ideological values. BJP is committed to the principle of 'Antayodya' and 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas'. TDP's ideology calls people 'god-like' and society as the 'main temple'. So is the case with JanaSena which firmly puts the common man at