Jagan Loyalists in Cong, TDP, PRP Resign En masse

On the very day when 17 MLAs of PRP joined Congress finalizing the PRP-Cong merger, twenty six of its MLAs have resigned from the Andhra Pradesh Assembly over the investigation against Jagan Mohan Reddy. With this the state Congress unit got in to yet another crisis since the en masse resignation of its MLAs from the Telangana region.

Though the Congress still holds a majority in the House which has 294 seats, the revolt will certainly affect party morale and fuel the notion that Jagan Mohan exerts significant pull over its partymen in his home state. Apart from 26 Congress MLAs, two legislators of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and one of Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) have also resigned taking the total number of resignations to 29. The reason that has fuelled the en masse resignation is the fact that Jagan's father, popular Congress leader YSR Reddy, has been named in the formal complaint filed against Jagan by the CBI. The investigating agency is trying to prove that when YSR was Chief Minister, he used public offices to favour companies who thanked him by investing in Jagan's companies at massive premiums.

List of the members resigned: Congress MPs — Mekapati Rajmohan Reddy and Sabbam Hari, the Congress MLAs— Adinarayana Reddy (Jammalamadugu), Alla Nani (Eluru), Amarmnath Reddy (Rajampet), Gurnath Reddy (Anantapur), Balineni Srinivas Reddy (Ongole), Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose (Ramachandrapuram), Siva Prasad Reddy (Darsi), Dharmana Krishnadas (Narasannapet), Srinivasulu (Railway Koduru), Babu Rao (Payakaraopet), Katasani Rambhoopal Reddy (Panyam), Srikanth Reddy (Rayachoti), P Balaraju (Polavaram), D Chandrashekar Reddy (Kakinada), Mekapati Chandramohan Reddy (Udayagiri), M Prasad (Narsapuram), K Chennakeshava Reddy (Yemmiganur), N Sesha Reddy (Anaparthi), Ramakrishna Reddy, Dr Ravi (Puthalapattu), Konda Surekha (Parakal), Jayasudha (Secunderabad), Kunja Sathyavathi (Bhadrachalam), Sucharitha Reddy, Korla Bharathi (Tekkali), Y S. Vijayamma (Pulivendula), Kapu Ramachandra Reddy (Rayadurgam), Shobha Nagireddy (PRP-Nandyal), Nallapureddy Prasanna Kumar Reddy (TDP-Kovvuru) and Y Balanagi Reddy (TDP-Mantralayam).