Confident Jagan moves office to Amaravati

HYDERABAD: YSR Congress party president YS Jaganmohan Reddy will shift his office-cum-residence from Hyderabad to Amaravati, the new capital region of Andhra Pradesh, on May 21, two days ahead of the declaration of assembly and Lok Sabha poll results, a party leader familiar with the development said.

In Andhra Pradesh, assembly elections were held simultaneously with the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls on April 11.

The YSRC chief has constructed a residence-cum-office complex on a one-acre plot at Tadepalli, which is part of Amaravati capital region. He performed house-warming ceremony on February 27 with a lot of fanfare.

The party leader cited above said Jagan Reddy would shift to his new residence at Tadepalli on May 21 and stay there.

“If he becomes the chief minister of the state, he would get it converted into his official residence,” he said.

In the 2014 assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, the Telugu Desam Party led by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu had won 103 out of 175 seats, while the YRSC had secured 66 seats. This time, the latter is hopeful of wresting power from the TDP.

“Now, it is time for the party headquarters to be shifted to Amaravati completely. By all means, the YSRC is going to come to power and form the government after May 23, when the results will be declared. So, Amaravati is going to be our area of operation,” senior party leader N Ramkumar Reddy said.

The YSR Congress party has been operating from Jagan Reddy’s office-cum-residence at Lotus Pond in Banjara Hills in Hyderabad.

Though the entire political activity of the party had been in Andhra Pradesh, he continued to stay put in the Telangana capital.

Except for an interim party office at Vijayawada, majority of the party activities, including strategy meetings, central committee meetings and major press conferences were being held only in Hyderabad.

Now, the party has started moving all the furniture, computers and other party material from Lotus Pond to Tadepalli.

“The entire process would be completed in two or three days. Hereafter, there will be no party activity in Hyderabad,” the first leader said.

Jagan Reddy has called a meeting of all the party candidates who contested the assembly and Lok Sabha elections, besides other senior party functionaries, on May 16, to discuss the strategies to be adopted on the counting day.