YS Jagan Mohan Reddy 21 day Bus campaign from today

The temperatures of the poll campaign will rise in Andhra Pradesh as YSRCP leader and Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy launches the canvassing for the upcoming elections with a 21-day bus tour called ‘Memanta Siddham’ (We are all ready) from Idupulupaya in Kadapa district, starting on Wednesday. This bus tour will be Jagan’s first election campaign after the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the legislative assembly and Lok Sabha polls on March 16. The TDP leader N. Chandrababu Naidu is also busy with the election campaign, having already completed two days of campaigning in Kuppam, his home constituency.

Similarly, Janasena leader Pawan Kalyan has also scheduled his election campaign to begin from Anakapalli on March 30. The actor-politician is contesting the legislative assembly election from Anakapalli constituency. The simultaneous polls for 175 assembly and 25 Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh are scheduled for May 13, and the results will be declared on June 4. Jagan’s bus tour will cover 21 districts and 148 Assembly constituencies. The journey will start from Idupulupaya and end in the North Andhra region, at the state’s eastern end. The ‘Memanta Siddham’ bus tour will enable Jagan to interact directly with people and participate in public meetings.

On the first day of the tour, Jagan will garland the statue of his father and former CM Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy at YSR Ghat in Idupulupaya. The bus tour will then move through the constituencies of Kamalapuram, Jammalamadugu and Proddatur, covering the villages of Vempalli, V N Palli, Yerraguntla, Potladutti and Proddatur town. After a public meeting at Proddatur bypass road, Reddy will end the first day with a night halt at Allagadda in Nandyala district. On the second day, Jagan’s bus tour will go to Nandyala Parliamentary constituency, and on the third day, it will be in Kurnool Lok Sabha constituency. In the first phase, the bus tour will focus on the Rayalaseema region, covering the six districts of Kadapa, Kurnool, Annamayya, Tirupati, and Chittoor.

The ruling party has decided to organize election meetings throughout the bus tour every day to send out a message that “YSRCP is ready in every Parliament constituency and every district.” The YSRCP has decided to organize meetings in at least two Assembly segments of a Parliament constituency during the tour. Jagan will spend time with people and stay overnight in those places. The tour will cover all the Parliamentary constituencies in the state on a district-wise basis, except those which recently hosted the massive Siddham (ready) election campaign meetings.

Before the election schedule was announced, Jagan addressed four massive Siddham poll campaign meetings at Bheemili, Eluru, Anantapur and Medarametla, which were attended by lakhs of supporters. On Tuesday, Reddy announced the name of YSRCP’s Anakapalli Lok Sabha candidate, which was the last one for the Parliament polls this year. Meanwhile, TDP and Janasena are yet to declare the names of a few more of their candidates. BJP announced the names of all its six Lok Sabha contestants, while the announcement of its 10 Assembly candidates is still pending.