Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party Youth, Labour, and Farmer Congress Party | |
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Abbreviation | YSRCP or YCP |
President | Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy |
Secretary | V. Vijayasai Reddy |
Parliamentary Chairperson | V. Vijayasai Reddy |
Lok Sabha Leader | P. V. Midhun Reddy |
Rajya Sabha Leader | V. Vijayasai Reddy |
Founder | Y.S Jagan Mohan Reddy |
Founded | 12 March 2011 |
Split from | Indian National Congress |
Headquarters | Plot no. 13, Suryadevara Township, Tadepalle, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, India |
Student wing | YSR Students Union |
Youth wing | Byreddy Siddharth Reddy [1] |
Women's wing | YSRCP Women |
Labour wing | P. Gowtham Reddy |
Peasant's wing | M. V. S. Nagi Reddy |
Ideology | Regionalism [2] Populism [3] Secularism [4] Social equality [5] Economic nationalism [6] |
Political position | Centre [7] to centre-left [8] |
Colours | Blue (mostly) White Green |
ECI Status | State party |
Seats in Lok Sabha | 22 / 543 |
Seats in Rajya Sabha | 11 / 245 |
Seats in Andhra Pradesh |
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Number of states and union territories in government | 1 / 31 |
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The Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP or YCP) [9] is an Indian regional political party based in the state of Andhra Pradesh. [10] Its president, Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, [11] [12] [13] serves as the state's chief minister. It currently has 17 seats in the Lok Sabha.
After the sudden death of the then-incumbent Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR) in a helicopter crash in September 2009, [14] [15] his son, Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, the incumbent MP from Kadapa, started an Odarpu Yatra (condolence tour) across Andhra Pradesh, to console the families of those who had committed suicide or died of shock after the death of his father. [16] [17] The tour was not supported by the Congress leadership. [18] Defying the Congress Working Committee's order to call off the tour, Jagan went ahead with the first leg of the "Odarpu Yatra" in the West Godavari and Khammam districts in April 2010. [19]
Meanwhile, Sakshi TV news channel and Sakshi newspaper, which are closely affiliated with YSR and Jagan, had been continuously criticizing the new Chief Minister Konijeti Rosaiah and the Congress leadership at New Delhi. In a special programme on Sakshi TV to mark the 125th-anniversary celebrations of the Congress party, a voice-over made remarks on Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the "current state of affairs" in the state, which invited anger and protests from the Congress loyalists and increased the gap and friction between Jagan and the Congress loyalists. [20] The channel later omitted those remarks in a re-telecast. [21]
After accusing the Congress of ill-treating him and creating a rift in his family by luring his uncle, Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy, the younger brother of YSR, with a state ministerial slot in the aftermath of the death of his father, Jagan and his mother, Y. S. Vijayamma, resigned from the Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendula Assembly constituencies respectively and also as members of the Congress in November 2010. [22] [11] [23] Many Congress leaders loyal to Jagan also quit the party and joined the YSR Congress. This resulted in the weakening of Congress in both the assembly and Lok Sabha, necessitating by-elections.
In the ensuing by-elections, after the formation of the party, it won most of the vacated seats with many of the Indian National Congress (governing party) and the Telugu Desam Party (the main opposition) candidates losing their deposits. [24] In March 2012, YSR Congress won the Kovur Assembly seat in Nellore district in a by-election. [25] [26]
In 2012 by-polls were held for 18 assembly constituencies which are: Parkal, Narsannapeta, Payakaraopet, Ramachandrapuram, Narasapuram, Polavaram (ST), Prathipadu (SC), Macherla, Ongole, Udayagiri, Rajampet, Kodur (SC), Rayachoti, Allagadda, Yemmiganur, Rayadurg, Anantapur Urban and Tirupati. [27]
On 15 June 2012, YSR Congress won the Nellore Lok Sabha seat and 15 of 18 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh. [28] YSRCP leaders P. Subhash Chandra Bose from Ramachandrapuram constituency of East Godavari district and Konda Surekha from Parkal constituency of Warangal district, both Ministers in the YSR cabinet, had switched to YSR Congress party but lost their races. [29]
It lost the 2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election to the Telugu Desam Party, which had previously been in opposition to the INC government. One-third of the MLAs who won for the YSR Congress in the 2014 Elections had joined the Telugu Desam Party by 2017. [30]
It went for 2019 General Elections by appointing Prashant Kishor, a renowned political strategist in Indian Elections [31] and emerged as the 5th largest political party in India. It did not contest in 2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election. [32]
The party won the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election in a landslide, winning 151 of the 175 seats, [33] [34] [35] including a clean sweep of the Kadapa, Kurnool and Nellore districts. It has been in government since 30 May 2019 and currently, in addition to having 151 members in the 175-member state assembly, the party has 22 members in the Lok Sabha (out of 25 in AP) based on the election results declared on 23 May 2019.
Year | Lok Sabha | Party leader | Seats contested | Seats won | Change in seats | Percentage of votes | Vote swing | Popular vote | Outcome |
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2014 | 16th | Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy | 38 | 9 / 543 | 7 | 1.5 | 13,995,435 | Others | |
2019 | 17th | 25 | 22 / 543 | 13 | 2.56% | 15,537,006 | |||
2024 | 18th | TBA |
Year | Assembly | Party leader | Seats contested | Seats won | Change in seats | Percentage of votes | Vote swing | Popular vote | Outcome |
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2014 | 14th | Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy | 175 | 70 / 175 | 15 | 45.38% | 13,494,076 | Opposition | |
2019 | 15th | 151 / 175 | 81 | 49.95% | 4.57 | 15,688,569 | Government | ||
2024 | 16th | TBA |
In 2022, the Election Commission of India (ECI) sought clarification from the YSR Congress Party regarding the reports announcing Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy as the permanent president of the party. The ECI expressed its displeasure and concern over this potential adoption by the party, citing it as an anti-democratic move. [37] [38] [39]
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term in office | ||
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Assumed office | Left office | Time in office | |||
1 | Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (1972–) | 12 March 2011 | Incumbent | 13 years, 82 days |
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term in office | ||
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Assumed office | Left office | Time in office | |||
1 | Y. S. Vijayamma (1956–) | 12 March 2011 | 5 May 2022 | 11 years, 71 days |
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term in office | Assembly (Election) | Constituency | Ministry | ||
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Assumed office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||
1 | Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (1972–) | 30 May 2019 | Incumbent | 5 years, 3 days | 15th (2019) | Pulivendula | Jagan |
No | Name | Term of office | |
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1 | Budi Mutyala Naidu | 11 April 2022 | Incumbent |
2 | Rajanna Dora Peedika | 11 April 2022 | Incumbent |
3 | Kottu Satyanarayana | 11 April 2022 | Incumbent |
4 | K. Narayana Swamy | 8 June 2019 | Incumbent |
5 | Amzath Basha Shaik Bepari | 8 June 2019 | Incumbent |
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term in office | Assembly (Election) | Constituency | ||
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Assumed office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
1 | Thammineni Seetharam (1955–) | 13 June 2019 | Incumbent | 4 years, 355 days | 15th (2019) | Amadalavalasa |
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term in office | Assembly (Election) | Constituency | Speaker | ||
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Assumed office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||
1 | Kona Raghupathi (1959–) | 18 June 2019 | 18 September 2022 | 3 years, 92 days | 15th (2019) | Bapatla | Thammineni Seetharam | |
2 | Kolagatla Veerabhadra Swamy (1961–) | 19 September 2022 | Incumbent | 1 year, 257 days | Vizianagaram |
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term in office | Assembly (Election) | Constituency | ||
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Assumed office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
1 | Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (1972–) | 23 June 2014 | 23 May 2019 | 4 years, 334 days | 14th (2014) | Pulivendula |
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