Hyderabad (NDTV): The alliance with the BJP will continue as of now, the Telugu Desam Party concluded today after a meeting with Chandrababu Naidu. The party - the BJP's biggest ally in south India, had been disgruntled since the Union budget, alleging that it had been ignored.

Today's "emergency meeting" in Vijaywada was meant to rethink the alliance. The party had earlier expressed its "extreme disappointment" and various leaders made a string of remarks threatening a break-up.

After the meeting, party leader and Union Minister YS Chowdary said the TDP will not to break alliance with BJP-led NDA, reported news agency Press Trust of India. The party, he said, will raise its concerns on issues related to Andhra Pradesh with the Centre. If its demands are not met, it will launch a protest, he added.

BJP National general secretary Ram Madhav earlier said the party was committed to the alliance with Mr Naidu's party. "TDP is an old ally of BJP, we will talk it out and tell them we are committed to the interests of Andhra Pradesh," he said yesterday.

The BJP assurances came after Mr Naidu called a meeting of his party leaders and lawmakers on Friday to discuss the "injustice" to the state. Sources said he had started making calls the minute the Union finance minister Arun Jaitley's budget speech ended.

"The budget couldn't favour us... zero we got ... if they (centre) don't do anything, we should get out of the alliance, that's what Chandrababu Naidu yesterday said... if he decides, then we will resign and come out," TDP parliamentarian Rayapati Sambasiva Rao said.

Since Mr Naidu took charge as Chief Minister four years ago, his ties with the BJP have soured. The TDP believes the centre, after promising help to fund mega promises like capital Amaravati and Polavaram, has been mostly tight-fisted.

Last weekend, he told reporters his party was ready to go its own way if the BJP didn't want to continue with the alliance. "Because of coalition dharma, we are keeping quiet. If they don't want us, we will do the 'namaskaram' and chart our own course," he said.

The state unit of the BJP has been very critical of the Naidu government over the past few months and has even hinted at working with its rival YSR Congress, whose leader Jagan Mohan Reddy recently talked about supporting the BJP if Andhra Pradesh was given special status.

The TDP has been demanding Special Category status for Andhra Pradesh since it was bifurcated in 2014 and a separate Telangana carved out, but the demand was rejected outright by the centre. The party had also sided with the opposition in the Rajya Sabha - where the BJP-led government does not have a majority - to back calls for referring the Triple Talaq bill to a select committee.