Anna Telugu Desam Party (ATDP) was a regional

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in the Indian state of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

. ATDP was founded on January 27, 1999, by

Nandamuri Harikrishna Nandamuri Harikrishna (2 September 1956 – 29 August 2018) was an Indian actor, producer, and politician. He served as the Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house the Indian Parliament representing the state of Andhra Pradesh ...

, the third son of the

Telugu Desam Party The Telugu Desam Party (; TDP) is an Indian regional political party operating in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana at the state and central level. Since its founding by N. T. Rama Rao (often referred to as NTR) on 29 March 1982, the party has fo ...

founder N.T. Rama Rao. N. Harikrishna held a revolt against the TDP leader N. Chandrababu Naidu. On January 28, 1999

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...

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left the

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and joined ATDP. Another Rajya Sabha MP,

Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad is an Indian writer and politician. He is the Chairman of the A.P. Hindi Academy; Professor in Hindi at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, and is a former Rajya Sabha Member. He received the fourth highest Indian ...

, also joined the party, giving ATDP two seats in the upper house of the

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NTR's second daughter may join politics
' ATDP held a single seat in the Legislative Assembly of

, represented by S. Madhusudhana Chary (previously belonging to the NTR-TDP).''India Today''.
Harikrishna plays father NTR's pro-poor card to upstage CM Chandrababu Naidu's TDP
' ATDP worked hard ahead of the 1999

assembly elections. An electoral alliance was set up with Communist Party of India and

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(who both had been TDP allies). A controversy surged within the alliance, due to ATDP line of wanting to ban foreign-born Sonia Gandhi from becoming Prime Minister. The left found that position unacceptable.''The Telegraph''.
CPM SNAPS TIES WITH PAWAR-ALLY MULAYAM
' In total ATDP launched 191 candidates, but the result was a complete flop. The party got 371,718 votes (1.12% of the votes in the state), but could not win a single seat. In the

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elections the same year the party launched 20 candidates, and received 244,045 votes (0.73% of the votes in the state), but no seats were won.

References

{{reflist Defunct political parties in Andhra Pradesh Political parties established in 1999 1999 establishments in Andhra Pradesh Telugu Desam Party breakaway groups Political parties with year of disestablishment missing