The announcement came on Sunday afternoon - a day before the first phase of the 2014 general elections.
The two parties, which held parleys till late on Saturday, agreed on a seat-sharing formula whereby the BJP will get 47 of the 119 assembly seats and eight of 17 Lok Sabha constituencies in Telangana and 15 of 175 assembly and five of 25 Lok Sabha seats in Seemandhra.
The list of the constituencies to be contested by the parties would be declared in a couple of days
BJP leader Prakash Javadekar, who was involved in the seat-sharing parleys, said the announcement of the alliance was historic as it has enthused not only Telangana and Andhra Pradesh but the whole country too.
"The TDP will be a part of the NDA now...Chandrababu Naidu will be the co-architect with Narendra Modi in creating a corruption and Congress-free India," Akali Dal's Naresh Gujral, who mediated between the BJP and TDP, said.
Voting for the assembly and parliamentary segments in Telangana are scheduled for April 30. Seemandhra will go to polls on May 07,2014
The BJP was eyeing the tie-up since last year as it was in August, 2013 that Narendra Modi had reached out to the TDP, reminding the party of the agenda of its founder N.T. Rama Rao - throwing the Congress out of power.
"This is a winning alliance which will ensure that the new government secures more than 300 seats at the Centre.
It is aimed at rooting out the Congress- headed government," TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu said, while announcing the tie-up in Hyderabad.
"Narendra Modi stands for development… Irrespective of religion, region and communities, Modi is being supported. Our goal is a Congress-free India and corruption- free India,"TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu said.
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The TDP had severed ties with the BJP-led NDA after the loss in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections.
A similar alliance had helped in the formation of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government in 1999.
The TDP-BJP alliance had bagged 36 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh that year.
The BJP could not open its account from the state in the last two general elections in 2004 and 2009
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