In the end he couldn’t believe it. The verdict that Andhra Pradesh electorate handed Chief Minister Y.S.
Jagan Mohan Reddy won 10 out of 175 Assembly seats and four out of 25 Lok Sabha seats for his YSRC. His drubbing is mainly attributed to a shrunken voter base with several caste and social groups distancing themselves from the ruling party for total neglect of development and high-handedness of the ruling party leader besides reducing governance to pressing a button, a symbolic gesture for transfer of money to the beneficiaries. In addition, a section of beneficiaries was also angry with the Jagan Mohan Reddy government for taking back more from them in the form of increased taxes and fees than what they were given through the welfare schemes.
A majority of the male voters from among the beneficiaries had fumed at the ruling party leaders for monopolising the liquor trade and enhancing the prices, yet supplying low-quality liquor which they claimed had taken the lives of several downtrodden people. The arrest of former chief minister and Telugu Desam supremo N. Chandrababu Naidu generated sympathy while his son and party general secretary Nara Lokesh’s walkathon instilled confidence among the party cadre.
Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan’s relentless efforts to avoid split in anti-incumbency vote through the stitching tripartite alliance by roping in the BJP and ensuring smooth transfer of vote also played its part in Jagan Mohan Reddy’s rout. “Our internal feedback .
