Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy had asked the rank and file of the party to target and win all the 175 Assembly seats in the 2024 general elections. Jagan held a crucial meeting with the ministers, party district unit presidents and the coordinators at Tadepalli on Wednesday.

He reviewed the party’s Gadapa Gadapaku programme which was held last month. He took some of the MLAs to task for not taking active part in the programme. He wondered how the MLAs wanted to win the next election without meeting the people.

Jagan Mohan Reddy told them that he would drop more than 50 MLAs in the next elections and bring new faces. He said the YSR Congress had won the Kuppam municipality and it was not difficult for the party to win the Kuppam Assembly. If the party could win Kuppam, it could win all the other 174 Assembly seats as well, Jagan told the leaders.

The chief minister wanted every leader of the party to stay with the people for the next one-and-a-half years. He asked them to keep interacting with the people, take feedback and explain the government programmes including the cash benefit programmes.

He said that every vote is important to win the election. He also emphasised that winning the 2024 election was crucial for the party and also for every leader in the party. He had asked them to finish the TDP in the 2024 elections.

Once the TDP is finished, it would be easy for the YSR Congress to retain power in the state in the subsequent elections, he told the legislators and asked them to be prepared.