New Delhi: Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu gets the support of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) working president M K Stalin has extended his support to him. Naidu is meeting several leaders of various parties to build an opposition front against the BJP-led NDA ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Naidu met Stalin, the leader of opposition in Tamil Nadu, at the latter’s residence in Chennai on Friday and discussed a range of issues for over an hour.

“Under the BJP rule at the Centre, states are losing their rights. Federal structure and democracy of the nation are facing a threat. I have been vocal on urging all the regional and federal forces to work together to remove BJP,” Stalin told reporters after coming out of the meeting.

“Since Chandrababu Naidu is concurring with my contention, he has called on me and asked DMK’s support to show doors for BJP. I assured him that we will stand together to remove BJP government from the centre,” he said.

Stalin also said that they will form a minimum programme plan to form the alliance.

“We, all the like-minded parties, will sit together and form a minimum programme plan for proceeding further. After that meeting, we will devise further strategies. Our only agenda is to work for removing BJP from the Centre,” Stalin said.

Speaking to the media, Naidu said when compared with Modi, Stalin is the better leader.

“I came here to request Stalin to join with us for saving the nation. Both the nation and democracy are in danger now. The BJP government is interfering with the autonomous institutions,” he said.

“Even as the government claimed that demonetisation was a tool to bring back the black money, on the anniversary of demonetisation, the finance minister (Arun Jaitley) said that the decision was taken for collecting taxes,” Naidu said, adding that he was working to save the democracy in the country.