Setting the target for the 2024 polls, YSRCP President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy told the winning legislators that the stupendous victory has further increased their responsibility and they must honour the mandate by living up to the people’s expectations.
Addressing the Legislature Party meeting, after being unanimously elected as the leader, he said, "Winning 151 of the 175 Assembly and 23 of the 25 LS seats by securing over 50% of total votes polled is an unprecedented chapter in the polity of the state, which has to be written in golden letters.
“I promise to cleanse the political system to pave way for politics of credibility and accountability and every one of you should be part of this process. Our aim and style of functioning should compel the entire nation look towards us as we will shape as a model state,” he said.
Jagan recalled that in the 2014 elections, the party narrowly missed the bus by just 1% of the vote, which worked out to be around five lakh votes.
He also said that the turmoil the party workers, leaders and people had undergone during the TDP term, their plight and suffering they expressed during the 3,648 km Praja Sankalp Yatra had reflected in the resounding victory of the Party.
In a lighter vein he also said that God punishes those who err in His own way.
Jagan also saw poetic justice in the way the results of the polls panned out. Earlier, Chandrababu Naidu had brought over 23 legislators from YSRCP, and it was left with 23 seats in the Assembly polls. Jagan also said that after Naidu had engineered the defection of 3 MPs from his party, he was now left with just three legislators in the Lok Sabha in the current election.
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