Jagan gears up for 2024 Assembly polls

By Our Special Correspondent

The Chief Minister’s message at the meeting with his cabinet colleagues, MLAs and the newly appointed party regional coordinators as well as district presidents was loud and clear.

Announcing the roadmap for the YSR Congress Party functionaries for the next assembly elections — scheduled to be held in 2024 — party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister (CM) Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday directed that all the party leaders will go on a from next month to take the government’s welfare schemes to the people.

Addressing a meeting of the ministers, district party presidents and regional coordinators at his camp office, Jagan directed that they should strive hard to see that party wins at least 151 assembly seats which it had won in 2019 elections, out of the total 175 seats.

He also announced the launch of “Gadapa Gadapakoo YSRCP” (YSRCP at every doorstep) from May 10 and asked the party leaders to take up door-to-door campaign of the government programmes. “It is time; we should shift the gear and go vigorously to the people. Besides, we should effectively counter the negative campaign by the opposition and its favorite media,” he said.

The party had decided to hold its plenary meeting on July 8 by which time the party structural organization would be given a complete shape. In appointing the booth and district committees, 50 per cent posts would be given to SCs, STs and BCs. Jagan instructed the MLAs to visit at least 10 village/ward secretariats every month, and monitor each secretariat for two days.

He finally told to the MLAs that he would get the surveys done periodically, so that he could assess their performance from time to time.