Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy is an Indian politician, currently serving as the Member of the Legislative Assembly representing Pulivendula Assembly constituency in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He served as the 17th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from 2019 to 2024, and is the current president of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP). He is the son of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
He started his political career in the Indian National Congress and was elected as the Member of Parliament of Kadapa in 2009. After his father died in 2009, he started an Odarpu Yatra (a consoling tour) across the state. He eventually came out of the Congress Party and established his party, YSR Congress Party. In the 2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, YSRCP won 67 seats, and he became the Leader of the Opposition. 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. His party suffered severe anti-incumbency in 2024.
Jagan Mohan Reddy was born into a family in Jammalamadugu in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh to Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and Y. S. Vijayamma in December 1972. He studied at the Hyderabad Public School and later at Pragathi Mahavidyalaya and Ram Koti, Hyderabad. He married Bharathi in 1996. The couple has two daughters. He founded the Telugu daily newspaper Sakshi and the television channel Sakshi TV. He also served as the chief promoter of Bharathi Cements.
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