Hyderabad, June 5 -- The ruling Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh will contest three out of four Rajya Sabha seats, elections for which are scheduled to be held on June 18, while leaving the fourth seat to its alliance partner - Jana Sena Party.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the leaders of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Andhra Pradesh held at the camp office of TDP president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu at Undavalli in Amaravati on Thursday evening.

The meeting was attended by Jana Sena Party president and deputy chief minister Pawan Kalyan, his party's political affairs committee chairman and minister Nadendla Manohar, TDP state president Palla Srinivasa Rao and Bharatiya Janata Party state president P ...