Why Jagan is important for Congress?
He is the inheritor of the late YSR Reddy legacy, the most famous Congress chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. He is a Reddy from Rayalaseema, the backbone of Congress in the state and controls the entire Rayalaseema region.
Jagan is young and very popular among the youth. His Odarpu yatra was a huge success.
With Jagan's exit Congress likely to lose majority Reddy votes in the Rayalaseema.
He also enjoys enormous financial clout and runs a huge media empire. If he launches a new party, it might unseat the Congress.
The Congress has 156 MLAs in Andhra Assembly. If 30-40 party MLAs go with Jagan, as he has been claiming, then the Congress government in Andhra will collapse.
Andhra Assembly has 294 MLAs and the halfway mark is 148.
Chiranjeevi's Praja Rajyan Party has 18 MLAs while MIM has seven members. These two parties are likely to support the Congress.
The Telugu Desam Party has 91 MLAs, Telangana Rashtra Samithi 11, Bharatiya Janata Party two, CPI four, CPI-M one, CPI-ML one and three are Independents
Posted by Ak Reddy
on 13:51.
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