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Chandrababu Naidu's two ministers will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this afternoon to hand over their resignation. The BJP's two ministers in the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister's state cabinet have already quit. Mr Naidu had last night announced his decision to pull out his Telugu Desam Party's ministers from the centre, hours after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley ruled out "special status" for Andhra Pradesh. TDP lawmaker Ravindra Babu told NDTV that the next "logical step" is to exit the BJP-led national alliance NDA, but Chandrababu Naidu seemed to leave options open, saying he would "plan further course of action" based on the Centre's reaction to his decision.