“Uncovered: Jaganmohan Reddy’s secret formula for electoral success”, Swarajyamag, June 16, 2023:
In September 2009, YS Rajashekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh, was killed in a tragic helicopter accident just months after he won a second term, and had vitally helped return 33 Congress members to the Lok Sabha.
It was a turning point in Andhra politics.
Following that tragedy, his son Jaganmohan Reddy split from the Congress, suffered endless harassment from his former party over corruption charges, started his own party, the YSRCP (Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party), weathered a fractious bifurcation of the state in 2014, successfully took on N Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP), won a series of elections, became Chief Minister of bifurcated Andhra Pradesh in 2019, and, in the process, eradicated both the Congress, and actor Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam Party, from his state….”
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