The YSRCP Supremo's Political Rise.

Yeduguri Sandinti Jaganmohan Reddy, also known as Jagan, is aspiring to become Andhra Pradesh chief minister in his late father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s footsteps will, for the second time, and contest from his family pocket borough Pulivendula in Kadapa district.

Jagan started his political career as a leader of the Congress party and was elected as a member of parliament for Kadapa seat in 2009 Lok Sabha polls.

In 2010, he resigned from the seat following the fallout with the Congress, he faced by-election from the Kadapa constituency and won by a huge margin of 545,043 votes.

YS Jagan then launched his own party, YSR Congress Party, in 2011.

Reddy was against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and held extensive agitation against the United Progressive Alliance’s decision to create a separate Telangana state.

Reddy’s YSR Congress lost the 2014 assembly elections when it could only win 67 of 175 seats. In the context, the 2019 assembly election is a do-or-die battle for the YSRC as its political longevity will largely depend on the election result. Political strategist Prashant Kishore, who worked the electoral magic for Narendra Modi in 2014, is YSRC's consultant now.

Jagan is the president of YSR Congress party and leader of opposition in the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly since June 2014.

Simultaneously polls will be held in Andhra Pradesh on April 11 for 25 Lok Sabha seats and to elect the new 175 member assembly.