<p>New Delhi: Former Union minister and senior Telugu Desam Party leader Kishore Chandra Deo on Thursday quit the party following its decision to align with the BJP-led NDA.</p>.<p> In a letter to TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu, Deo said the one-point programme of the present NDA government appeared to be only to create vote banks by unleashing a 'reign of terror by bigots'.</p>.<p>"I am thoroughly disappointed and aghast at the manner in which you are pursuing an alliance with such disruptive forces. This is the worst case scenario that I have witnessed in the fifth decade of my political career," said Deo, a prominent tribal leader of Andhra Pradesh.</p>.TDP welcomes SC verdict on electoral bonds; demands YSRCP to 'come clean'.<p> He served as tribal affairs and panchayati raj minister in the UPA-II government of the then prime minister Manmohan Singh.</p>.<p> "I cannot barter my soul for crumbs of power. This is to inform you that I am forthwith resigning from the primary membership of the TDP," he said.</p>.<p>Deo, a Congress leader, had joined the TDP ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections after facing a defeat in the 2014 polls, which were held just after the carving out of separate Telangana state from Andhra Pradesh.</p>.<p> A six-term parliamentarian, five terms in Lok Sabha and one in Rajya Sabha, Deo contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls on a TDP ticket from the Araku seat, which he lost.</p>.<p> One of the key politicians from north coastal Andhra, Deo had also served as the minister of state for steel, mines and coal in the Charan Singh government (1979-80). </p>
<p>New Delhi: Former Union minister and senior Telugu Desam Party leader Kishore Chandra Deo on Thursday quit the party following its decision to align with the BJP-led NDA.</p>.<p> In a letter to TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu, Deo said the one-point programme of the present NDA government appeared to be only to create vote banks by unleashing a 'reign of terror by bigots'.</p>.<p>"I am thoroughly disappointed and aghast at the manner in which you are pursuing an alliance with such disruptive forces. This is the worst case scenario that I have witnessed in the fifth decade of my political career," said Deo, a prominent tribal leader of Andhra Pradesh.</p>.TDP welcomes SC verdict on electoral bonds; demands YSRCP to 'come clean'.<p> He served as tribal affairs and panchayati raj minister in the UPA-II government of the then prime minister Manmohan Singh.</p>.<p> "I cannot barter my soul for crumbs of power. This is to inform you that I am forthwith resigning from the primary membership of the TDP," he said.</p>.<p>Deo, a Congress leader, had joined the TDP ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections after facing a defeat in the 2014 polls, which were held just after the carving out of separate Telangana state from Andhra Pradesh.</p>.<p> A six-term parliamentarian, five terms in Lok Sabha and one in Rajya Sabha, Deo contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls on a TDP ticket from the Araku seat, which he lost.</p>.<p> One of the key politicians from north coastal Andhra, Deo had also served as the minister of state for steel, mines and coal in the Charan Singh government (1979-80). </p>