Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy (born 21 December 1972), also known as Y. S. Jagan or mononymously as Jagan, is an Indian politician currently serving as the 17th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

He is the founder and president of the Indian political party, YSR Congress Party (YSRCP).

He is also the son of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

His Mother Y. S. Vijayamma, is the chairperson of YSR Congress Party.

Reddy married Bharathi on 28 August 1996.

The couple has two daughters, the elder of whom studied undergraduate in London.

Reddy first acquired Sandur Power Company Limited (SPCL), a defunct power project from its original promoter M B Ghorpade in 2001.

SPCL later invested crores of rupees in other companies and could acquire more businesses.

It is headed by his wife, Y. S. Bharathi.

Reddy sold his shares in SPCL and moved away from his active direct businesses as he got more involved in politics.

Reddy's father Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, popularly known as YSR, was a two-time chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, serving from 2004 to 2009.

He started his political career campaigning for Indian National Congress during the 2004 elections in Kadapa district.

Jagan Mohan Reddy started his political career in the Indian National Congress and was elected as the Member of Parliament of Kadapa in 2009.

After his father's death due to a helicopter crash in 2009, he started an Odarpu Yatra (a consoling tour) across the state.

He then eventually came out of the Congress Party and established his own party, YSR Congress Party which also matches his father's acronym, YSR.

In 2009, he was elected as Member of Parliament from Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency.

Following the death of his father in September 2009, he started efforts to take up the political legacy left by his father.

The majority of the legislators favoured him to be appointed as the Chief Minister, but this choice was not approved by party leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi.

Six months after his father's death, he began an odarpu yatra (condolence tour), as promised earlier, to go and meet the families of those alleged to have either committed suicide or suffered ill health on the news of his father's death.

The Congress party's central leadership directed him to call off his odarpu yatra, an order which he defied leading to a fallout between the high command and himself.

He went ahead with the yatra, stating that it was a personal matter.

Following the fallout with the Congress party high command, on 29 November 2010, he resigned from Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency and has also quit the party.

His mother, Vijayamma, has also resigned from Pulivendula Assembly constituency and has quit the party as well.

He announced on 7 December 2010 from Pulivendula that he would be starting a new party within 45 days.

In March 2011, he announced that he would launch the new party, named YSR Congress Party, at Jaggampeta, East Godavari district.

Later, his party went to by-polls in Kadapa district and won almost all the seats with a huge majority.

Reddy, as the president of YSR Congress, faced by-election from the Kadapa constituency and won by a large margin of 545,043 votes.

His mother has also won the Pulivendula Assembly constituency by 85,193 votes against Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy.

He studied at The Hyderabad Public School up to 12th grade.

Tollywood actor Sumanth Kumar Yarlagadda was his best friend at school.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Pragathi Mahavidyalaya Degree and PG college, Ram Koti, Hyderabad.

In 2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, YSRCP won 67 seats and he became the Leader of the Opposition.

In 2014, the YSR Congress Party was a pre-poll favourite among most analysts and psephologists.

But, the YSRCP has lost the 2014 elections, winning only 67 of 175 seats in the state assembly, with 45% of vote share.

The Telugu Desam Party vote share went up to 47% and the 2% gap led to the defeat of YSRCP.

As a leader of the Opposition in Assembly and YSR Congress Party's president, Reddy launched his 3,000-km-long walkathon named Praja Sankalpa Yatra, popularly called padayatra, on 6 November 2017 at Idupulapaya in Kadapa district.

Five years later, in 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, he led the party to a landslide victory in the state elections by winning 151 seats of the total 175 assembly segments.

Jagan Mohan Reddy was born in Christian Reddy family in Jammalamadugu in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh to Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and Y. S. Vijayamma.

Reddy has a younger sister, Y. S. Sharmila, who is also a politician.

YSR Congress party coined a slogan "Raavali Jagan, Kaavali Jagan" for the foot march that took him across 125 Assembly segments all over the state in 430 days and ended on 9 January 2019.