An amendment to the party constitution means that incumbent AP Chief Minister Jagan is lifetime president of the YSRCP.
YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and his mother YS Vijayamma attend the YSRCP plenary session on 8-9 July, 2022, where he was elected lifetime president of the party. (Twitter/YSRCParty)
The YSRCP — currently in power in Andhra Pradesh — elected YS Jagan Mohan Reddy as its lifetime president on Saturday, 9 July: the second day of its two-day plenary meeting in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.
Jagan, who formally launched the party in early 2011, has been its president since he left the Congress the previous year.
The plenary also saw the resignation of his mother YS Vijayamma from the position of party’s honorary president. She is now expected to help her daughter — Jagan’s sister — Sharmila, who currently heads YSR Telangana Party.
The moves cement Jagan’s position in what is currently the fifth-largest party in the Lok Sabha, where it has 22 seats.
The party was following in the footsteps of the DMK: The Tamil Nadu-based political outfit had declared M Karunanidhi as its lifetime president.
Party workers at the YSRCP plenary session on Friday, 8 July, where YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was elected its lifetime president. (Twitter/YSRCParty)
The Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party’s plenary session — the third since it came to power in the state in 2019 — decided on several resolutions.
Chief among them was the amendment to the party constitution through which Jagan has been elected the party’s lifetime president.
However, the party did not list any political resolution on its agenda.
The session coincided with the birth anniversary of the late chief minister and Jagan’s father YS Rajasekhara Reddy on 8 July.
The party lined up nine resolutions for the sessions.
There was one each on women empowerment, education, healthcare, Direct Benefit Transfer schemes, transparency in administration, social empowerment, agriculture, and the MSME sector.
వైయస్ఆర్ సీపీ ప్లీనరీ సమావేశాలు. ఫోటో గ్యాలరీ 5.#YSRCPPlenary #YSRJayanthi #FarmersDay pic.twitter.com/iUSoZF5S4j
— YSR Congress Party (@YSRCParty) July 8, 2022
The ninth resolution was on Dushta Chatushtayam (evil quartet).
It targeted the principal Opposition, which is the Telugu Desam Party.
Another target was the Jana Sena — the outfit that actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan is looking to use to rise to a position of power in the state.
The final targets were some Telugu media houses, which the YSRCP has branded “yellow media”.
YSRCP general secretary VV Sai Reddy said before the session began: “The plenary will give a direction on what better needs to be done in the next couple of years.”
(With agency inputs)
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