Telugu Desam Party(TDP) and Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) suffered a humiliating defeat in the By-poll (12June2012) verdict. Both are losing ground in Andhra Pradesh. They had their hey days when they were together. TDP came back to power in 1999 by have electoral truck with BJP, thanks to ‘patriotic rhetoric’ generated by Kargil war. The latter had to lie low and couldn’t play the role of a potential ally or an opposition party . That was how BJP lost all its ground. This was a piece written on their ‘forced friendship’ in the year 2000.