Some key people of the YCP are currently in hiding, fearing the wrath of their own supporters.
Popular Tollywood comedian Ali, who had been a staunch supporter of YSR Congress party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy till recently, has resigned from the party on Friday evening.
All these years, after the demise of YS Rajasekhara Reddy, it was YS Jagan Mohan Reddy who was considered the icon for the Reddy community.
During the five-year tenure of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy as Chief Minister, he exercised power with a status befitting his position, often providing explanations in front of the media.
Former minister Botsa Satyanarayana, who played a highly visible role during the Andhra Pradesh election campaign, has suddenly vanished from the public eye following the YSRC’s defeat.
These days, social media is witnessing an intense war of words and comments between the two groups supporting popular Telugu television figures—founder-CEO of TV9 V. Ravi Prakash and the current TV9 managing editor V. Rajinikanth.
YSR Congress Party president and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy held a meeting on Thursday with the contested candidates of the recently-held state assembly and Lok Sabha elections at his Tadepalli camp office.
For the last five years, YSR Congress party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has been avoiding attending the trial in the alleged quid pro quo cases filed against him by the Central Bureau of Investigation in 2012.
YSR Congress party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is learnt to have decided to focus on revamping his party organisation by identifying the ineffective and incompetent leaders holding key posts and replacing them with efficient and loyal leaders.
Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu was sworn in as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister on June 12, along with all the cabinet ministers, including three from the Jana Sena Party and one from the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Former minister and Telugu Desam Party legislator from Bheemili constituency in Visakhapatnam Ganta Srinivasa Rao is learnt to have received a strong reprimand from party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu for putting up a big show at Rushikonda palatial bungalow built by previous Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government on Sunday.
The sudden demolition of alleged illegal security outposts outside the residence of YSR Congress party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy at his Lotus Pond residence in Hyderabad has left Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy red-faced.
In less than two weeks of the YSR Cong9ress party led by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy suffering a major setback in the Andhra Pradesh assembly and Lok Sabha elections, rumblings have started surfacing in the party.
As long as Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy is beside Jagan Mohan Reddy, the other leaders of YSRCP are reluctant to come and meet Jagan Mohan Reddy, even though they wish to.
There is an impression that leaders from the Raju community who worked closely with the TDP have either been sidelined or given smaller roles than expected.