Telugu Desam Party
In early 1982 there were rumours that NTR was planning to plunge into politics by floating a regional political party. Just nine months before the scheduled general elections, NTR floated a regional party Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and was said to have invited Naidu to join the party, but Naidu stuck to the Congress party and contested again from Chandragiri constituency against a rival TDP candidate Venkatarama Naidu. The TDP swept the polls, and won a huge majority. It was the first time Indian National Congress was defeated in the state after Independence.
Naidu joined the TDP after he was defeated in the elections, predicting he would have a better future in his father-in-law's party.
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