AS CHIEF Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s bus yatra involves a detailed on Wednesday, after being on the street for practically a month, the ruling YSRCP is hoping that the celebration has clawed again a few of the misplaced floor on account of robust anti-incumbency in opposition to its sitting MLAs.
The YSRCP supremo’s high-voltage ‘Meemantha Siddham (We’re all prepared for polls) Yatra’ on a particular election automobile drew enormous crowds, similar to he did throughout his gruelling padyatra forward of the 2019 elections.
Sources within the YSRCP stated the bus yatra was a lot wanted to attract individuals’s consideration away from the celebration candidates to Jagan himself, to eclipse the hype surrounding the TDP’s tie-up with the JanaSena Celebration (JSP) and BJP, and to battle the possible injury from a cut up of votes on account of Jagan’s sister Y S Sharmila preventing on the opposite facet as Andhra Congress chief.
Andhra Pradesh goes to simultaneous polls within the fourth part on Could 13.
When unsure, Jagan has at all times taken the yatra route, be it the Odarpu Yatra (condolence tour) as a Congress MP after his father and former Andhra CM Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s demise in 2009, or his 3,000-km Praja Sankalpa Yatra as a YSRCP MLA and the Chief of the Opposition in 2019.
Following the fallout with the Congress over the Odarpu Yatra, Jagan had floated the YSRCP and 10 years later fashioned the federal government with a landslide victory.
The Meemantha Sidham Yatra, ranging from YSR Ghat in Kadapa and ending at Srikakulam, took the identical route because the Praja Sankalpa Yatra. The YSRCP ensured the message reached throughout the state, overlaying the march minute-by-minute reside, with drone visuals.
It coated all of the 25 districts of the state, along with Jagan’s 4 “Siddham (prepared)” conferences held earlier in Bheemili (Visakhapatnam district), Denduluru (Eluru district), Addanki (Bapatla district) and Raptadu (Anantapur district).
With the TDP-led alliance respiration down the YSRCP’s neck in lots of constituencies, what Jagan does to quell anti-incumbency will play a significant function in deciding the result. Jagan has already dropped over 25% of his sitting MLAs, shifted some MLAs to different, safer seats, and dropped 60% of the sitting MPs.
The yatra additionally helped the YSRCP authorities battle the extraordinary scrutiny over its failure to ship social safety pensions to beneficiaries on April 1. Whereas the YSRCP sought guilty the TDP because it had approached the Election Fee over the disbursal, the TDP stated the federal government couldn’t ship because it had run out of funds. As soon as the yatra began, the problem fizzled out.
The YSRCP can be anticipating some sympathy vote from the harm suffered by Jagan after a stone was thrown at his bus in Vijayawada on April 15. Within the seat, a Congress bastion which was one of many three constituencies the TDP received in 2019, points like three-capital proposal, Polavaram mission and lack of civic infrastructure growth have been dominating the electoral discourse.
Even some TDP leaders talked of a tricky battle forward. Lavu Srikrishna Devarayalu, the YSRCP MP from Narasaraopet in Palnadu district who’s contesting on a TDP ticket from the seat, instructed The Indian Express: “The TDP has to work very arduous for a preventing probability on this election. The BJP joined us however it has not been in a position to take any benefit of it.”