In a major political development, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Friday formally severed ties with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the demand of special category status to Andhra Pradesh.

TDP leader Thota Narasimham moved a no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha, hours after the announcement of quitting the NDA was made by party president N Chandrababu Naidu in Amaravati.

With the TDP deciding to pull out of NDA, the tally of Lok Sabha is all set to change. After the general elections in 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party had alone cornered 282 seats and the NDA formed the government with 336 seats in its account.

After suffering a number of losses in the bypolls over the last four years, BJP’s tally of 282 seats in Lok Sabha has come down to 275. Recently, the saffron party lost Gorakhpur and Phulpur seats in the byelections in Uttar Pradesh, which, as several political analysts believed, should ring alarm bells for the BJP as it may set the tone for the 2019 general elections.

Over the course of four years, the BJP lost four Lok Sabha seats to Congress, two seats to Samajwadi Party and one seat to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).

Talking about the standing of NDA in Lok Sabha, with TDP, which has 16 MPs, snapping its ties, the alliance suffers a loss of 16 seats.

Raju Shetti, who was the lone MP from the Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghathana, has quit NDA in 2017 citing dissatisfaction with the Narendra Modi government on its handling of farmers issues.

Falling sharply from the tally of 336 seats, the NDA’s strength in the Lok Sabha currently stands at 312, with the BJP losing seven bypolls and the TDP deciding to quit.

The parties that are still standing tall with the BJP are Shiv Sena, Janata Dal (United), Apna Dal, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), Sikkim Democratic Front, National People’s Party (NPP) and All India N.R. Congress (AINR Congress).

With 275 seats, BJP has just three more than the half-way mark of 272 in the 543-member House.