Analysis: 13 Reasons Why Jagan Reddy Lost In Andhra Pradesh

The YSRCP had won 151 assembly and 23 Lok Sabha seats with nearly 50 per cent vote share in 2019. Going down to 40 per cent vote share in 2024 has left the party with just 10 assembly and four Lok Sabha seats.

Outgoing Andhra Pradesh chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy says he does not know the reason why despite bringing welfare to maximum households, the elderly, women, farmers, auto drivers and others, he and his party, the YSR Congress had faced such a humiliating defeat in Andhra Pradesh.

The YSRCP had won 151 assembly and 23 Lok Sabha seats with nearly 50 per cent vote share in 2019. Going down to 40 per cent vote share in 2024 has left the party with just 10 assembly and four Lok Sabha seats.

1.   Arrest of Chandrababu Naidu in September, 2023, shocked his admirers and supporters specially among the educated class who considered Mr Naidu as an icon of progressive Telugu political leadership. The police action was suspected to be vendetta politics.