Jagan Reddy Elected YSRCP President For A Lifetime

AP CM Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has been elected the lifetime president of the ruling YSRCP (Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party).

An announcement in this regard was made on the 2nd and final day of the party plenary here on Saturday. YSRCP general secretary V. Vijaysai Reddy announced the unanimous election of Jagan Mohan Reddy as the lifetime president of the party.

YSRCP leaders filed a total of 22 sets of nominations on behalf of Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday. No other leader filed a nomination for the post.

YSRCP leaders on the dais congratulated Jagan Reddy on his election. The participants in the plenary hailed the announcement with loud cheers and slogans.

The YSRCP will now move the ECI (Election Commission of India) to convey that it has modified its constitution for Jagan Reddy's election as the YSRCP president for his lifetime.

The party leaders are confident of getting ECI's nod. They cited the case of DMK, which was allowed by the Election Commission to name M. Karunanidhi as the party chief for life.

Jagan Mohan Reddy floated YSRCP in 2011 after resigning from congress part to carry forward the ideas of his late father and former chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR).