YSR Congress Party

The Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP or YCP; transl. 'Youth, Labour, and Farmer Congress Party')[7] is an Indian regional political party based in the state of Andhra Pradesh.[8] Its president, Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy,[9][10][11] serves as the state's chief minister. It is currently the fifth largest party in the Lok Sabha with 22 seats.

Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party
Youth, Labour, and Farmer Congress Party
AbbreviationYSRCP or YCP
PresidentY. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
SecretaryV. Vijayasai Reddy
Parliamentary ChairpersonV. Vijayasai Reddy
Lok Sabha LeaderP. V. Midhun Reddy
Rajya Sabha LeaderV. Vijayasai Reddy
Founded12 March 2011 (2011-03-12)
Split fromIndian National Congress
HeadquartersPlot no. 13, Suryadevara Township, Tadepalle, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Student wingP Chaitanya
Youth wingByreddy Siddharth Reddy [1]
Women's wingPothula Sunitha
Labour wingP Goutham Reddy
Peasant's wingMVS Nagireddy
IdeologySecularism[2]
Regionalism[3]
Social equality[4]
Economic populism[5]
Political positionCentre-left[6]
Colours  Blue (mostly)
  White
  Green
ECI StatusState party
Seats in Lok Sabha
22 / 543
Seats in Rajya Sabha
9 / 245
Seats in Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
151 / 175
Seats in Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council
47 / 58
Number of states and union territories in government
1 / 31
Election symbol
Ceiling Fan
Website
www.ysrcongress.com/en

Origins

After the sudden death of the then-incumbent Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR) in a helicopter crash in September 2009,[12] 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. This tour was not supported by the Congress leadership.[13] 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.[14]

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.[15] The channel later deleted those remarks in a re-telecast.

After accusing the Congress of ill-treating him and creating rift in his family by luring his uncle Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy (younger brother of YSR) with a state ministerial berth 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.[16][9][17] Many Congress leaders loyal to Jagan also quit the Congress and joined the YSR Congress. This resulted in the weakening of the Congress's strength in both the assembly and the Lok Sabha, necessitating by-elections.

Electoral performance

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.[18] In March 2012, YSR Congress won the Kovur assembly seat in Nellore district in a by-election.

On 15 June 2012, YSR Congress won the Nellore Lok Sabha seat and 15 of 18 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh. 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.[19]

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.[20]

It went for 2019 general elections by appointing Prashant Kishor, a renowned political strategist in Indian elections[21] and emerged as the 5th largest political party in India. It did not contest in 2018 Telangana Legislative Assembly election.[22]

The party won the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election in a landslide, winning 151 of the 175 seats, including a clean sweep of the Kadapa, Kurnool and Nellore districts. It has been in government since 30 May 2019 and currently the party has a strength of 151 members in the 175 member state assembly and 22 members in the Lok Sabha (out of 25 in AP) as the election results declared on 23 May 2019.

Indian general elections
Lok Sabha Elections
Year Lok Sabha Party leader Seats contested Seats won Change in seats Percentage of votes Vote swing Popular vote Outcome
2014 16th Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy 38 Increase 9 2.56% Steady 13,995,435 Others
2019 17th 25 Increase 13 2.56% Steady 15,537,006

State legislative assembly elections
Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Elections[23]
Year Assembly Party leader Seats contested Seats won Change in seats Percentage of votes Vote swing Popular vote Outcome
2014 14th Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy 175
70 / 175
 Increase 70 45.38% Steady 13,494,076 Opposition
2019 15th
151 / 175
 Increase 81 49.95% Increase 22.07% 15,688,569 Government

List of party leaders

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.[24][25][26]

Presidents
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Term in office
Assumed office Left office Time in office
1 Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
(1972–)		 12 March 2011 Incumbent 12 years, 229 days

Legislative leaders

Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh
Further information: List of chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Term in office Assembly
(Election)		 Constituency Ministry
Assumed office Left office Time in office
1 Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
(1972–)		 30 May 2019 Incumbent 4 years, 150 days 15th
(2019)		 Pulivendla Reddy

Deputy chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh
No Name Term of office
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

Speakers of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Further information: List of speakers of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Term in office Assembly
(Election)		 Constituency
Assumed office Left office Time in office
1 Thammineni Seetharam
(1955–)		 13 June 2019 Incumbent 4 years, 136 days 15th
(2019)		 Amadalavalasa

Deputy speakers of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Term in office Assembly
(Election)		 Constituency Speaker
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, 38 days Vizianagaram

Leaders of the Opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Further information: List of leaders of the opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Term in office Assembly
(Election)		 Constituency
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)		 Pulivendla

See also

References
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