Chandrababu Naidu takes the Telugu Desam Party from his father-in-law

NTR's second marriage, to Lakshmi Parvathi in 1993, had become a source of friction inside the Telugu Desam Party — she was widely seen as wielding growing influence over government and party appointments. N. Chandrababu Naidu, NTR's son-in-law from his first marriage and a senior TDP minister, revolted on 23 August 1995, gathering more than 150 of the party's 219 MLAs at Hyderabad's Viceroy Hotel and positioning himself as the legislature party's alternative leader.

The numbers settled it quickly by the party's own internal process: Naidu was elected TDP president and sworn in as Chief Minister on 1 September 1995. When the Assembly met on 7 September to formalise the change, only 28 of the TDP's 219 MLAs still backed NTR; the Speaker did not allow him to address the House and suspended his remaining loyalists for unruly conduct.

NTR, who had founded the party just 13 years earlier and been Chief Minister three times, never returned to office; he died in January 1996. Naidu went on to lead the TDP and Andhra Pradesh for the rest of the decade, through the state's 2014 bifurcation, and remains its dominant figure today.