Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is contesting from Pulivendula constituency is the son of former CM YS Rajasekhar Reddy.
Promising "Rajanna Rajyam", a state envisaged by her father and former Chief Minister of AP late Rajasekhara Reddy, in Telangana, she said the YSR Telangana Party's main agenda would be on three issues -- welfare, self-prosperity and equality.
YSR Congress President Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday called on Andhra Pradesh Governor ESL Narasimhan to demand an emergency session of state assembly to pass a resolution against the proposed bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
Reddy alone will take oath on Thursday while his Council of Ministers is likely to be constituted on June 7, party sources said.
Rebel Congress leader and former Member of Parliament from Kadapa, Y S Jaganmohan Reddy will formally launch his much awaited regional political party at his family estate Idupulapaya on Saturday.
A special budget for farmers and interest-free loans for farmers and women are among the welfare programmes announced by Kadapa member of Parliament Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, which he said his YSR Congress Party would implement if it comes to power.
Former Congress MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Saturday formally unveiled the flag of his new regional party 'YSR Congress', marking the start of his full-scale war with the Congress party for the political legacy of his father.
Ahead of resuming his controversial yatra, Congress MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy paid tributes to his late father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy at the place where he was buried, on Tuesday. Jagan, who arrived at the family estate at Idupulapaya, near Kadapa, from Hyderabad by train in the early hours on Tuesday, offered tributes to his father at the burial site inside the estate.
Apart from private vehicles, many crammed buses too have brought in the crowds. Plus, many have come by private taxis. Large stickers of YSR and a Congress flag are a common sight on the vehicles. Naturally, the surge of humanity means that traffic crawls around the venue, but really, no one is in a mood to mind
Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy was laid to rest at his estate in Idupulapaya near his home town of Pulivendula at 1730 hrs on Friday in front of a crowd that Andhra may have not witnessed till date.
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