People have pulled the curtains down on the “dark rule (of YSR Congress Party)“ by giving the TDP-Jana Sena Party-BJP alliance a mandate unheard of in a very long time, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has obsreved.

Participating in the Deepavali celebrations at the Punnami Ghat here on Sunday, Mr. Naidu asserted that Andhra Pradesh was recovering from the difficulties it had been facing since bifurcation more than a decade ago.