YSR Congress Party

Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party Youth, Labour, and Farmer Congress Party
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	K. Siva Kumar [1]
Founded	12 March 2011(13 years ago) (2011-03-12)
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 [2]
Women's wing	YSRCP Women
Labour wing	P. Gowtham Reddy
Peasant's wing	M. V. S. Nagi Reddy
Ideology	Regionalism [3] Populism [4] Secularism [5] Social equality [6] Economic nationalism [7]
Political position	Centre [8] to centre-left [9]
Colours	Blue (mostly)   White   Green
ECI Status	State party
Seats in  Lok Sabha	17 / 543
Seats in  Rajya Sabha	11 / 245
Seats in  Andhra Pradesh	135 / 175 (Legislative Assembly) 39 / 58 (Legislative Council)
Number of states and union territories in government	1 / 31
Election symbol
Ceiling Fan
Party flag
Website
www.ysrcongress.com/en
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The Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP or YCP) ^[10] is an Indian regional political party based in the state of Andhra Pradesh. ^[11] Its president, Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, ^{[12] [13] [14]} serves as the state's chief minister. It currently has 17 seats in the Lok Sabha.

Origins

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, ^{[15] [16]} 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. ^{[17] [18]} The tour was not supported by the Congress leadership. ^[19] 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. ^[20]

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. ^[21] The channel later omitted those remarks in a re-telecast.^{[ citation needed ]}

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] [12] [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.

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. ^[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.

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	9 / 543	7	1.5		13,995,435	Others
2019	17th		25	22 / 543	13	2.56%		15,537,006
2024	18th			TBA

State legislative assembly elections

Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Elections ^[36]

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	15	45.38%		13,494,076	Opposition
2019	15th			151 / 175	81	49.95%	4.57	15,688,569	Government
2024	16th			TBA

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. ^{[37] [38] [39]}

President

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	13 years, 74 days

Chairperson

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term in office
			Assumed office	Left office	Time in office
1		Y. S. Vijayamma (1956–)	12 March 2011	5 May 2022	11 years, 71 days
			4 December 2023	Incumbent	173 days

National convener

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term in office
			Assumed office	Left office	Time in office
1		Y. S. Sharmila (1974–)	12 March 2011	8 July 2021	10 years, 118 days

Legislative leaders

List of chief ministers

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, 361 days	15th (2019)	Pulivendula	Jagan

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

List of speakers

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, 347 days	15th (2019)	Amadalavalasa

List of deputy speakers

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, 249 days		Vizianagaram

List of leaders of the opposition

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)	Pulivendula

See also

• List of political parties in India
• List of Indian National Congress breakaway parties
• Telugu Desam Party
• Jana Sena Party

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External links

• Official website