Best Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Sri Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy

The electoral victory could not have been sweeter for YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. It has been a long time coming. The 46-year-old made his electoral debut in May 2009 exactly a decade ago when he successfully contested from the Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency the YSR family’s bastion. A few months later in September when his father and the then chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy died in a chopper crash it was thought Jagan who holds a master’s in business administration could succeed him. Ministers and leaders loyal to YSR lobbied hard with a signature campaign persuading many legislators to back Jagan then aged just about 36. But fate willed otherwise. The then Congress president Sonia Gandhi anointed veteran leader K Rosaiah as the chief minister thwarting the young man’s dream of succeeding his illustrious father.Jagan’s insistence subsequently on going ahead with ‘Odarpu Yatra’ ostensibly to console the families of those who had died of shock upon hearing of YSR’s untimely demise widened the rift between him and the Congress high command.