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The TDP has finally turned down the Bharatiya Janata Party's offer of Lok Sabha speakership, thus ending several days' suspense over the issue. ``We are not contesting for the post of Speaker'', the TDP president and Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu announced at a press conference after a meeting of the party's politburo here tonight. Mr. Naidu, however, made it clear that the TDP's support to the NDA Government would continue and that this would be issue-based. Fielding questions the Chief Minister conceded that the Politburo decision not to contest for speakership was a mark of protest against the BJP leadership's refusal to sack the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi. Asked whether the decision was a gain or loss to the TDP, he quipped, ``we have taken a principled stand. It is not an issue of gain or loss. He said the TDP's support to NDA would continue though it was not a member of the steering committee. Whenever the BJP violated the NDA agenda, the TDP registered its protest, he said citing the saffronisation and Ayodhya issues.
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