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Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy వై.ఎస్.జగన్మోహన రెడ్డి
Member of Parliament
In office 13 May 2011 - present ^[1]
Preceded by	Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy
Constituency	Kadapa
Personal details
Born	21 December 1972 (age 39) Pulivendula village of Kadapa District, Andhra Pradesh
Spouse(s)	Y S Bharati
Children	2 Daughters.
Residence	Hyderabad/Bangalore



Member of Parliament
In office 13 May 2011 - present
Preceded by	Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy
Constituency	Kadapa

Born	21 December 1972 (age 38) Pulivendula village of Kadapa District, Andhra Pradesh
Spouse(s)	Y S Bharati
Children	2
Residence	Hyderabad/Bangalore
Religion	Christian (Anglican)

Yeduguri Sandinti Jaganmohan Reddy born December 21, 1972), also calledJagan by his admirers,is an Indian politician and is a member of the Parliament of India from Kadapa constituency. He is the son of the former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ("YSR"). Jaganmohan Reddy received his early education from Pulivendula and Hyderabad Public School .

Personal life and religious beliefs

Reddy founded the daily Telugu language newspaper Sakshi and the television channel Sakshi TV. He is the chief promoter of Bharathi Cements. Reddy is a devout Christian.

Political life

Reddy started his political career by campaigning for Congress party in 2004 elections in Kadapa District, and in the 2009 elections he was elected as member of Parliament from Kadapa constituency as a member of the Indian National Congress.

However, his political career took a new innings with the demise of his father, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ("YSR"). His relationship with the Indian National Congress (INC) continuously deteriorated after his father's death

Reddy, representing his YSR Congress, contested the 2011 Lok Sabha by-election for Kadapa and won with a majority of 5,45,671 votes, whilst defeating his opponents from the Indian National Congress and Telugu Desam Party.

Odarpu Yatra

Six months after his father's death, Reddy began a Odarpu Yatra (condolence tour) as promised earlier to go and meet the families of those alleged to have either committed suicide or died of shock after hearing the death of his father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in a chopper crash in the thick Nallamalai forests in Kurnool district on September 2, 2009.The Congress party's central leadership directed Reddy to call off his odarpu yatra which he defied leading to a fallout between the high command and himself and further went ahead with the yatra stating that its personal and has got nothing to do with politics. His Odarpu Yatra established Jagan as a political leader in AP politics. Reddy announced on 7 December 2010 that he would be continuing 'Odarpu Yatra' from 16 December 2010 in Kadapa district itself across all the assembly segments in the district. Later he would be moving on to the rest of the districts.

Criticism of Sonia Gandhi and subsequent resignation

On November 29, 2010, he resigned, after a fallout with the party high command. Reddy announced on 7 December 2010 from Pulivendula that he would be starting a new party within 45 days. In February, 2011, he took over a party which had existed on paper only since the prior July, and was officially recognized on February 16 as president of the YSR Congress Party.

First elections under the new party

Alhough the party contested Member of Legislative Council elections after its birth, the by-election for those seats which were left vacant after resignations of Y. S. Vijayamma and Reddy were held on May 8th 2011, in which the son and mother duo contested on behalf of YSR Congress Party. These were the first major and direct elections for the party. Election Commission of India allotted a ceiling fan as common symbol for YSR Congress contestants in this election. In by-elections Y. S. Vijayamma won the Pulivendula Assembly seat by a record majority of 85,191 votes, highest in that constituency. Reddy won with a record high majority of 545,043 votes; he bettered the 4.2 lakh vote margin registered by his father. Jaganmohan Reddy secured 6.9 lakh votes, more than 65 per cent of the total votes polled. He won with a majority of 5.45 lakh votes over his nearest rival, Health Minister D.L. Ravindra Reddy, who secured 1.46 lakh votes. Telugu Desam Party nominee M.V. Mysoora Reddy came third with 1.29 lakh votes. Both his rivals and 39 independents forfeited their deposits.

In Pulivendula, Vijayamma secured a record 81,373 votes margin, surpassing her husband's 68,681 vote margin in the 2009 elections. She defeated her nearest Congress rival and brother-in-law Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy, who got a little more than 28,000 votes. TDP candidate M. Ravindranath Reddy, with 12,000 votes, remained a distant third. The nominees of these parties and 22 independents could not retain their deposits.

Jaganmohan Reddy's emphatic victory is a huge setback not just to the Congress, but the TDP as well, as both had left no stone unturned to contain him. It is seen as a personal triumph for the 37-year-old leader, who made it “a battle between Congress president Sonia Gandhi and self-respect of the people of Kadapa.” He claimed the verdict was a pointer to the political changes in the offing. Reddy bettered the 4.2 lakh vote margin registered by his father from the same Kadapa seat in 1991. His winning margin was next only to that of the former Prime Minister, P. V. Narasimha Rao, who won with a 5.8 lakh vote margin from Nandyal.

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Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy




14^th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
In office 14 May 2004 – 2 September 2009
Preceded by	N. Chandrababu Naidu
Succeeded by	Konijeti Rosaiah
Constituency	Pulivendula

Born	8 July 1949 Pulivendula, Andhra Pradesh
Died	2 September 2009 (aged 60) Andhra Pradesh, India
Political party	Indian National Congress
Spouse(s)	Y.S. Vijayalakshmi
Children	Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy Sharmila
Religion	Church of South India (Anglican)

Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (Telugu: యేడుగురి ఎస్ రాజశేఖర రెడ్డి) (8 July 1949 – 2 September 2009), popularly known as YSR, was a two-time Chief Minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh.He is seen as the one of the most popular Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh due to various welfare schemes and development programs he took up for the people of his state. In the words ofYahoo 'YSR was a mass leader who ruled the hearts of people in Andhra Pradesh'. The BBC has called him a champion of social welfare schemes.

He was elected to the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Lok Sabha from the Kadapaconstituency for four terms and to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly for five terms from the Pulivendula constituency. At the time of his death, he held the record of not losing any election throughout his political career. In 2003 he undertook a three-month-long paadayaatra, or walking tour of 1475 km in hot summer, across several districts in Andhra Pradesh to get into power. He led his party to victory in the next general and assembly elections held in 2004 and also the next election in 2009. He is the only chief minister of AP to have come back to power after being in office for a full term.

On 2 September 2009, a helicopter carrying Reddy went missing in the Nallamalaforest area in a mysterious way. On the morning of 3 September 2009, media agencies reported that the helicopter wreckage had been found on top of Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74 km) from Kurnool. This was later confirmed by the Prime Minister's office and all five people aboard were pronounced dead at the scene. Lot of people believe that there is a conspiracy behind YSR’s death.There are rumors that a highly influential Indian business tycoon and a very highly influential Indian political person were behind his untimely death.

Personal life and religious beliefs

Reddy was married to Vijaya Lakshmi. They have a son, Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, a famous young dyanamic politician who later resigned for Indian National Congress and formed his own political party named Y.S.R Congress (Yuvagana Sramika Raithu) and successfully contested and won the Kadapa Lok Sabha by-election with a record 5 lakh plus majority, and a daughter, Sharmila. His younger brother Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy is also a Congress(I) politician.

Reddy's parents were devout Christians and he was buried according to Christian rites. He had also visited Bethlehem and other historically important Christian places in Israel twice. Although Reddy was a third generation Telugu Christian, he used to have “darshan” of Hindu deity Lord Venkateswara. He regularly visited the central temple of the god at Tirupati.

Career

Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy practiced medicine for sometime in his native KadapaDistrict. The hospital his father built for him at Pulivendula is still running. His family also built and ran a degree college and a polytechnic college at Pulivendula which was later handed over to the Loyola Group of Educational Institutions. Another junior college at Simhadripuram, a small town in the vicinity of Pulivendula, is run by his family. He never lost an election throughout his political career of 30 years. he is only congress chief minister completed his early(2004–2009)tenure without any interruption.He is popularly believed to be the most powerful leader of the Indian National Congress from the State of Andhra Pradesh. He was loved dearly by his friends and justly feared by his enemies. His popularity with the masses and his meteoric rise to power earned him many enemies during his political career. However, when he was elected as the 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh he is believed to have been generous with even his most staunch enemies. This earned him even more popularity. He returned to power for a second successive term riding on populist schemes aimed at the largest and most influential and powerful sections of the electorate. Many believe that were he alive, he would have been the first person to win a third consecutive term as the Chief Minister of the state.

Positions held

Minister of state for rural development (1980–82)
Excise minister (1982)
Education minister (1982–83)
Leader of Opposition, Andhra Pradesh State Assembly (1999–2004)
Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (2004–2009)
Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (20-May-2009 To 02-Sep-2009)

As Chief Minister

During his tenure as CM,the following schemes were undertaken by his Government of Andhra Pradesh.

Providing free electricity as promised for farmers was initiated from the very first day of his tenure as CM in 2004.
Rajiv Arogya Shree – A health insurance for rural people having white card (people identified by government as below poverty line), where the government pays the entire price of any surgery up to 200,000 rupee
Emergency service(consisting of 108 & 104)- Free Ambulance service for all the public, though this was started by Satyam later adopted by government ofA.P
Pavala Vaddi — a program that provides loans to people at 3% per year so as to encourage them to take up small scale businesses and entrepreneurship primarily targeted at rural women
Indiramma illu — a program for construction of houses for the rural masses by charging a small amount and the government spends the remaining amount.
Rs 2/KG of rice scheme
Increase in the minimum support price for rice.
Reimbursement of full college fees for backward sections, reservations for minorities were also implemented.
Food security, Access to credit and other social aspects during his tenure as chief minister were also implementedApart from these schemes, his government stood as the role model in implementing the central governments flagship program – the NREGA. The main emphasis during his tenure was on social welfare with a majority of his schemes targeting in improving the livelihood of the rural masses. The BBC has called him a champion of social welfare schemes.
Extremist Naxalite movement in the state of AP had been reduced significantly, primarily due to the lack of support from rural masses as his governments welfare programs reached them.

His tenure also saw significant weakening of the violent extremist left-wing Naxalitemovement that was rampant in the state when he assumed office in 2004. The movement was so intense that the former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu's car was blasted by them in October 2003. A major reason for the weakening of the Naxalite movement is either due to negotiations which resulted in their surrender, for the schemes offered by Mr. Reddy's Government, or due to the increase in number of police checkposts and intelligence. He is the one of the most popular chief ministers in India.During his era Andhra Pradesh achieved a growth rate of more than 6% every year and reduced its poverty to 16% compared to 23 percent for India.

Other Projects

Jala Yagnam-To irrigate 1,00,00,000 acres of land through construction of major, medium and minor irrigation projects. This made Andhra Pradesh take big strides in areas of Sustainable Agriculture by introducing as wastelands will be cultivable.

Election 2009

Reddy's major campaign slogan for the 2009 election was "Development and the credibility". He was seeking a mandate on his performance in his previous tenure. He did not promise any new schemes before the election and only promised continuation and minor extensions to the ongoing schemes. The opposition parties had formed a 'Grand alliance' (mahakootami) comprising of the major opposition party – the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the communist parties. The TDP had promised numerous freebies including free color televisions and the unique cash transfer scheme (CTS) . There was also a new party PRP floated by a popular film star Chiranjeevi. Under his leadership congress came into power for the second time.

In the elections, Reddy's party (INC) surpassed the required majority in the assembly (148 seats) by winning 156 seats. It also bagged 33 seats in parliament out of 42 seats. This was seen as a very big victory for Reddy since he was able to come back to power for the second consecutive term against the odds of anti-incumbency and an almost unified opposition. He became the Congress party’s first chief minister since 1969, that is, in four decades, to be able to seek votes in his own name, and win.

Reddy was sworn in as the chief minister for the term of 2009–2014 on 20 May 2009. The ceremony was held in Hyderabad's Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium and attended by a crowd of around 20,000 people. He is the only CM of Andhra Pradesh to come back to power after serving a full 5 year term

Controversies

The surrender of more than 1,600 acres (6.5 km²) by Reddy to the government during his own term in December 2006 was criticized by the opposition parties who demanded resignation from his post. Naidu also called for Reddy's resignation after a 2007 Khammam police shooting resulted in eight deaths.

Death

Main article: 2009 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister helicopter crash

Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy's Bell 430 helicopter went missing on Wednesday, 2 September 2009 at 9:35 am. Begumpet and Shamshabad Air Traffic controllerslost contact with the aircraft at 10:02 am while it was passing through the denseNallamala forest area. The Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh, P. Ramakanth Reddy, said that inclement weather had forced the helicopter off-course. Although the sparsely populated forest area is considered to be stronghold of the outlawedNaxal communist insurgents, the National Security Advisor of India ruled out the possibility of the Naxals bringing down the helicopter.

The Indian Prime Minister's Office confirmed the helicopter's crash on the morning of 3 September and the death of all aboard, including Reddy, his special secretaryP. Subrahmanyam, chief security officer A. S. C. Wesley, Group Captain S. K. Bhatia and Captain M. S. Reddy . The Director General of Police said that the bodies of Reddy and others were charred beyond recognition and had to be identified on the basis of clothing. The autopsy of all the bodies was carried out at Kurnool Medical College.

An investigation eventually concluded that the factors that caused that crash included the fact that the crew became fixated for more than six minutes in trying to find out what was behind a problem with their transmission oil pressure system, and they became distracted from the worsening weather. It was also noted that the pilots of the helicopter never discussed the bad weather, diverting, or returning to base.

Reddy's body was buried on 4 September at Idupulapai in Kadapa district with full state honors in accordance with Christian rites.

Aftermath

Then Finance Minister Konijeti Rosaiah was sworn in as Chief Minister following his death. The media reported that many people died of shock after hearing of Reddy's death (either due to heart attack or by committing suicide) and stated that this is first of its kind for any politician. The figure is said to be between 700 to 800 deaths by various media sources.

Aftermath his death

Six months after his death, His son began a Odarpu Yatra (condolence tour) as promised earlier to go and meet the families of those who either allegedly committed suicide or died of shock after hearing the death of his father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in a chopper crash in the thick Nallamalai forests in Kurnool district on September 2, 2009.The Congress party's central leadership directed Jagan(ysr son) to call off his odarpu yatra which he defied leading to a fallout between the high command and himself and further went ahead with the yatra stating that its personal and has got nothing to do with politics. His "Odarpu Yatra" is so far a big success and established Jagan as a big political leader in AP politics.[7] Reddy announced on 7 December 2010 that he would be continuing 'Odarpu Yatra' from 16 December 2010 in Kadapa district itself across all the assembly segments in the district. Later he would be moving on to the rest of the districts.

On November 29, 2010, Y.S.R son jagan resigned, after a fallout with the party high command.[8] Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy announced on 7 December 2010 from Pulivendula that he would be starting a new party within 45 days. In February, 2011, he took over a party which had existed on paper only since the prior July, and was officially recognized on February 16 as president of the YSR Congress Party.[9]

The by-election for those seats which were left vacant after resignations of Y. S. Vijayamma(Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy wife) and Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy(Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy son) were held on May 8, 2011, in which the son and mother duo contested on behalf of YSR Congress Party. These were the first major and direct elections for the party. Election Commission of India allotted a ceiling fan as common symbol for YSR Congress contestants in this election. In by-elections Y. S. Vijayamma won the Pulivendula Assembly seat by a record majority of 85,191 votes, highest in that constituency. Jaganmohan Reddy won with a record high majority of 545,043 votes.

Y.S.R son Jagan Mohan Reddy, his wife Vijayamma shatter records.Jagan Mohan Reddy bettered the 4.2 lakh vote margin registered by his father . Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy secured 6.9 lakh votes, more than 65 per cent of the total votes polled. He won with a majority of 5.45 lakh votes over his nearest rival, Health Minister D.L. Ravindra Reddy, who secured 1.46 lakh votes. Telugu Desam Party (TDP) nominee M.V. Mysoora Reddy came third with 1.29 lakh votes. Both his rivals and 39 independents forfeited their deposits.

In Pulivendula, Ms. Vijayamma secured a record 81,373 votes margin, surpassing her husband's 68,681 vote margin in the 2009 elections. She humbled her nearest Congress rival and brother-in-law Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy, who got a little more than 28,000 votes.

TDP candidate M. Ravindranath Reddy, with 12,000 votes, remained a distant third. The nominees of these parties and 22 independents could not retain their deposits.

The victory is seen as a personal triumph for the 37-year-old leader, who termed the election “a battle between Congress president Sonia Gandhi and self-respect of the people of Kadapa.” He claimed the verdict was a pointer to the political changes in the offing.Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy bettered the 4.2 lakh vote margin registered by his father from the same Kadapa seat in 1991. His son jagan winning margin was next only to that of the former Prime Minister, P. V. Narasimha Rao, who won with a 5.8 lakh vote margin from Nandyal.

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