{"schema_version":1,"citation_url":"https://567politics.com/news/india-andhra-vijayasai-reddy-parivartana-rajaneethi-party-launch-jagan-naidu-november-2026","title":"Jagan's former No. 2 launches a party at 11:11 on 11/11, vowing to end Andhra's 'two-family' rule","description":"Ex-YSRCP strategist V. Vijayasai Reddy says his new party will contest all 175 seats. Rivals cite his pending cases; no poll yet measures support.","author":"567 Politics staff","publisher":"567politics","date_published":"2026-11-11T16:07:24.991373Z","date_modified":"2026-11-11T16:09:37.800805Z","body_markdown":"V. Vijayasai Reddy, who spent more than a decade as the second-ranking strategist of Andhra Pradesh's YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), launched his own party in Vijayawada on Wednesday, November 11. He aimed it squarely at the two families that have traded power in the state. He named it the Parivartana Rajaneethi Party (PRP), said it would contest all 175 Assembly seats and told supporters that neither Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu nor his former leader, Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, should be beyond questioning, [The Hindu reported](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/vijayasai-reddy-launches-parivartana-rajaneethi-party-vows-to-end-two-family-politics-in-andhra/article71688719.ece). Rivals answered by pointing to the criminal cases he still faces and to his January 2025 promise to quit politics. No representative poll has yet measured support for the new party, and the next Assembly election is not due until 2029.\n\nThe launch matters less for what the PRP can win tomorrow than for what it signals about the opposition space in Andhra Pradesh. The YSRCP fell from 151 seats in 2019 to 11 in 2024. Congress, which once ruled the undivided state, took 1.72% of the vote. A former insider who helped build the YSRCP is now openly recruiting from it, while borrowing symbols, a saffron flag and a \"dharma\" slogan, that overlap with the national ruling party's appeal.\n\n## What Vijayasai Reddy launched, and what he promised\n\nThe party was unveiled at a convention center in Vijayawada at 11.11 a.m. India time (12.41 a.m. Eastern), a time Reddy said he chose on astrologers' advice, according to the [Hindustan Times](https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/exysrcp-leader-v-vijaya-sai-reddy-launches-new-party-in-ap-attacks-jagan-s-arrogance-101794390170436.html). The flag is saffron and white with a Dharma Chakra wheel at its center, and the slogan is \"For the nation, for the dharma,\" as the [Times of India](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vijayawada/andhra-pradesh-gets-a-fresh-political-player-ex-rajya-sabha-mp-vijayasai-reddy-launches-new-party-names-it-parivarthana-rajaneethi-party/articleshow/135728374.cms) also reported. English-language outlets transliterate the name differently: The Hindu uses Parivartana Rajaneethi Party, the Hindustan Times and NDTV use Parivarthana Rajaneethi Party, and [The Indian Express](https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/vijayasai-reddy-new-party-andhra-prdesh-jagan-mohan-aide-rival-10958778/) uses Parivartan Rajniti Party. All refer to the same organization.\n\nHis central pitch was against inherited leadership. \"Should the Chief Minister, Ministers and MLAs come only from these two families?\" he asked, according to [The Hindu](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/vijayasai-reddy-launches-parivartana-rajaneethi-party-vows-to-end-two-family-politics-in-andhra/article71688719.ece). He said the party wanted a capable young person to become chief minister regardless of caste or lineage. He would act as a \"margadarshi,\" or mentor, he said. He cited Bal Thackeray in Maharashtra and Kanshi Ram in Uttar Pradesh as founders who built organizations without holding the top job themselves. The Times of India quoted him saying he had no desire to become chief minister.\n\nThe concrete commitments reported so far are mostly about candidates and welfare. The Hindustan Times reported that he pledged two of every three PRP candidates in the 2029 Assembly election would come from Gen Z. Half of the party's candidates would be women, he said. He also promised free electricity, free education for students and \"100 per cent employment and livelihood opportunities\" for young people. The Telugu outlet [M9 News](https://www.m9.news/politics/vijayasai-reddy-prp-launch-jagan-ysrcp-political-agenda/) described the electricity promise as aimed at farmers and added a pledge of irrigation for every acre. No manifesto costing these commitments, party constitution or registration filing was available for review on Wednesday.\n\nHe also raised an issue in neighboring Telangana: The Hindu reported that he would take up with Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy the removal of 26 castes from that state's Backward Classes list.\n\n## Why Andhra Pradesh's numbers leave room for a third party, on paper\n\nThe case for a new entrant rests on how lopsided the last two elections were. In 2019 the YSRCP won 151 of the 175 Assembly seats and reduced the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to 23. In 2024 the TDP won 135 seats, its allies Jana Sena 21 and the BJP eight, while the YSRCP fell to 11, according to [The Hindu's results report](https://www.thehindu.com/elections/andhra-pradesh-assembly/election-results-2024-naidu-set-to-become-cm-of-andhra-pradesh-for-fourth-time-complete-rout-for-jagans-ysrcp/article68251434.ece). Jana Sena's single seat in 2019 comes from the [2019 election record](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Andhra_Pradesh_Legislative_Assembly_election), which compiles Election Commission results.\n\n```chart\ntype: column\ntitle: Andhra Pradesh Assembly seats won, 2019 and 2024\nnote: Seats out of 175. The TDP, Jana Sena and BJP contested 2024 as an alliance.\nsource: [The Hindu, June 4, 2024](https://www.thehindu.com/elections/andhra-pradesh-assembly/election-results-2024-naidu-set-to-become-cm-of-andhra-pradesh-for-fourth-time-complete-rout-for-jagans-ysrcp/article68251434.ece), [2019 results compilation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Andhra_Pradesh_Legislative_Assembly_election)\n---\nParty | 2019 | 2024\nYSRCP | 151 | 11\nTDP | 23 | 135\nJana Sena | 1 | 21\nBJP | 0 | 8\n```\n\nSeat totals exaggerate the YSRCP's collapse, however. The vote tells a different story. An analysis of the 2024 result by the [Association for Democratic Reforms](https://adrindia.org/sites/default/files/Analysis_of_Vote_Share_and_Margin_of_Victory_of_Winners_Andhra_Pradesh_Assembly_2024_Finalver_English.pdf) found the TDP won 45.60% of valid votes and the YSRCP 39.37%. Jana Sena took 6.87%, the BJP 2.83% and Congress 1.72%. A party with nearly two in five votes is weakened, not erased. Any new outfit that wants to replace it as the main opposition has to pull voters out of that bloc.\n\n```chart\ntype: bar\ntitle: Vote share in the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Assembly election\nnote: Percent of valid votes, all 175 constituencies\nsuffix: %\nsource: [Association for Democratic Reforms and Andhra Pradesh Election Watch, July 2024](https://adrindia.org/sites/default/files/Analysis_of_Vote_Share_and_Margin_of_Victory_of_Winners_Andhra_Pradesh_Assembly_2024_Finalver_English.pdf)\n---\nParty | Vote share\nTDP | 45.60\nYSRCP | 39.37\nJana Sena | 6.87\nBJP | 2.83\nCongress | 1.72\nNOTA | 1.09\nBSP | 0.60\nOther parties | 1.75\n```\n\nReddy's own explanation of the 2024 result places the blame on Jagan Mohan Reddy's leadership rather than on welfare policy. Voters \"had welcomed several welfare schemes\" but \"rejected the arrogance and overbearing attitude of its top leadership,\" he said, according to the [Hindustan Times](https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/exysrcp-leader-v-vijaya-sai-reddy-launches-new-party-in-ap-attacks-jagan-s-arrogance-101794390170436.html). That reading is contested. [The Hindu's 2024 results analysis](https://www.thehindu.com/elections/andhra-pradesh-assembly/election-results-2024-naidu-set-to-become-cm-of-andhra-pradesh-for-fourth-time-complete-rout-for-jagans-ysrcp/article68251434.ece) listed several factors behind the YSRCP's defeat, including anti-incumbency, unemployment, debt concerns and the campaign against the Land Titling Act, not leadership style alone.\n\nThe Indian Express reported, citing sources close to Reddy, that he also sees an opening among former Congress voters and supporters of the late Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Jagan Mohan Reddy's father. He described the PRP as an attempt to \"occupy the political vacuum left by the Congress in Andhra Pradesh,\" [the paper reported](https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/vijayasai-reddy-new-party-andhra-prdesh-jagan-mohan-aide-rival-10958778/). The [Indian National Congress](/parties/india/congress) and its left allies have failed to win an Assembly seat in the post-2014 state in three straight elections, according to the [2024 election record](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Andhra_Pradesh_Legislative_Assembly_election).\n\n## From Jagan's closest aide to his open rival\n\nReddy, a chartered accountant, has been tied to the Y.S. family since 1980, when he met Rajasekhara Reddy, and later became a financial adviser to the family and a member of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams board, according to [The Indian Express](https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/vijayasai-reddy-new-party-andhra-prdesh-jagan-mohan-aide-rival-10958778/). He served as the YSRCP's national general secretary and its leader in the Rajya Sabha. The Hindu called him the party's \"number two\" when he lost the Nellore Lok Sabha seat to the TDP's Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy in 2024.\n\n```diagram\ntype: timeline\ntitle: Vijayasai Reddy's path to the PRP\nsource: [The Indian Express](https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/vijayasai-reddy-new-party-andhra-prdesh-jagan-mohan-aide-rival-10958778/), [Hindustan Times](https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/exysrcp-leader-v-vijaya-sai-reddy-launches-new-party-in-ap-attacks-jagan-s-arrogance-101794390170436.html), [The Hindu](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/rajya-sabha-chairman-jagdeep-dhankar-accepts-vijaya-sai-reddys-resignation/article69140999.ece), [Deccan Chronicle](https://www.deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/andhra-pradesh/no-scam-only-sham-naidu-taking-the-shield-by-foisting-false-cases-says-jagan-1880693)\n---\n1980: Meets Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and begins a long association with the family\n2012: CBI names him alongside Jagan Mohan Reddy in disproportionate-assets chargesheets\n2013-10: Released on bail, where he remains\n2016-06: Elected to the Rajya Sabha for the YSRCP\n2024-06: YSRCP falls to 11 Assembly seats; he loses the Nellore Lok Sabha race\n2024-12: Andhra Pradesh CID names him in an FIR over the Kakinada port share sale\n2025-01-25: Resigns from the Rajya Sabha and says he is leaving politics\n2025-05-22: Jagan Mohan Reddy says he \"surrendered\" to Naidu\n2026-08-19: Announces at Tirumala that he will form a party\n2026-11-11: Launches the PRP in Vijayawada\n```\n\nHis exit in January 2025 was framed at the time as a retirement. The Hindu reported that he posted that he was \"not joining any political party,\" that the decision was \"entirely personal\" with \"no pressure, coercion or undue influence,\" and that he would focus on agriculture. He also said he had no personal issues with Naidu and that his \"friendship with Pawan Kalyan is forever,\" [according to The Hindu](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/rajya-sabha-chairman-jagdeep-dhankar-accepts-vijaya-sai-reddys-resignation/article69140999.ece).\n\nJagan Mohan Reddy read the resignation differently. In May 2025 he spoke about the state's liquor-policy investigation. He said Reddy \"resigned only to serve the interests of Chandrababu Naidu\" and asked, \"What value do statements from people like Vijayasai Reddy hold?\" according to the [Deccan Chronicle](https://www.deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/andhra-pradesh/no-scam-only-sham-naidu-taking-the-shield-by-foisting-false-cases-says-jagan-1880693). The same YSRCP leader called the liquor case \"a sham\" designed to weaken a separate case against Naidu. Reddy, for his part, said earlier this month that he did not leave voluntarily but was pushed out after enduring more than 70 humiliations in the YSRCP, the Telugu edition of [Oneindia reported](https://telugu.oneindia.com/news/andhra-pradesh/two-pro-hindutva-leaders-join-hands-with-vijayasai-reddy-for-new-party-former-mp-targets-ysrcp-agai-513827.html). Neither account has been independently established; both are the parties' own descriptions of a private falling-out. Other YSRCP leaders have been dismissive: in September, when reporters put to Reddy senior YSRCP leader Botsa Satyanarayana's remark that the new party would be like K.A. Paul's small Praja Shanti Party, Reddy replied by asking how many parties Satyanarayana had switched, [ETV Bharat reported](https://www.etvbharat.com/en/state/if-provoked-ill-reveal-more-truths-former-mp-vijayasai-reddy-warns-ysrcp-enn26090803127).\n\nThe relaunch began in August. On August 19 he told reporters at Tirumala that the party's aim would be \"to make the people's voice heard in Parliament and the Assembly,\" [The Hindu reported](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/former-rajya-sabha-mp-vijayasai-reddy-announces-new-political-party-in-andhra-pradesh/article71363965.ece).\n\n## The cases that rivals keep raising\n\nThe sharpest criticism of the launch concerns Reddy's legal record, and here allegations and findings need to be kept apart. The Indian Express reports that he and Jagan Mohan Reddy were named in CBI chargesheets in 2012 in the disproportionate-assets and quid pro quo cases and that he has been on bail since October 2013. NDTV noted that both men have contested those allegations. No court has convicted him in those cases, which remain pending more than a decade after the chargesheets.\n\nIn his 2024 Lok Sabha nomination affidavit, summarized by the Association for Democratic Reforms' [MyNeta database](https://www.myneta.info/LokSabha2024/candidate.php?candidate_id=5285), Reddy declared 22 pending criminal cases. He reported total assets of Rs 36,51,67,286 (about Rs 36.5 crore) and liabilities of about Rs 22.8 lakh. Declared cases are pending charges or complaints listed by the candidate, not convictions. U.S. Federal Election Commission data do not apply to Indian politicians. Registered Indian parties report contributions to the Election Commission of India, but no such report exists yet for a party launched on Wednesday, and the PRP's donors and spending had not been disclosed.\n\nTwo newer matters arose after the YSRCP lost power. In December 2024 the Andhra Pradesh CID named him in an FIR over allegations that he pressured a shareholder in Kakinada Seaports Ltd to sell his shares. Those shares were later acquired by the Aurobindo Pharma group, according to [The Indian Express](https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/vijayasai-reddy-new-party-andhra-prdesh-jagan-mohan-aide-rival-10958778/). He also gave a statement to investigators in the liquor-policy case, which the YSRCP says is politically motivated. An FIR records a complaint and opens an investigation; it is not a finding of guilt.\n\nRivals have used these matters to question his motives. Andhra Pradesh Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav belongs to the BJP, part of Naidu's ruling coalition. In September he said everyone in a democracy has the right to start a party. But he said Reddy must explain \"with what face\" he was doing so after, in the minister's words, looting public money for decades, [AP7AM reported](https://www.ap7am.com/tn/879177/satya-kumar-yadav-says-jagan-and-vijayasai-reddy-are-crime-partners). He called Reddy and Jagan Mohan Reddy \"partners\" in crime. Reddy responded at a press conference in Vijayawada: \"If I have looted public funds, let them file cases against me and have me arrested,\" according to [ETV Bharat](https://www.etvbharat.com/en/state/if-provoked-ill-reveal-more-truths-former-mp-vijayasai-reddy-warns-ysrcp-enn26090803127). He added that he had \"good relations with the BJP.\"\n\nOn launch day, Praja Shanti Party president K.A. Paul called the PRP an \"Aparivartana Avineeti\" party, roughly \"unchanged corruption,\" and alleged that Reddy formed it to protect hidden wealth and to split Jagan Mohan Reddy's vote, [Disha Daily reported](https://www.dishadaily.com/andhrapradesh/ka-paul-comments-on-vijayasai-reddy-party-600180). In a separate clip carried by [BIG TV](https://www.bigtvlive.com/andhra-pradesh/ka-paul-slams-vijayasai-reddy-new-party-launch-3-lakh-crore-corruption-allegations.html), Paul alleged that Reddy had taken Rs 3 lakh crore. He also described him as a BJP \"agent.\" Paul offered no documentary evidence for either figure or claim in those reports, and no investigating agency has made such a finding. The Rs 3 lakh crore figure is roughly 8,000 times the assets Reddy declared in 2024. That shows how far apart the allegation and the public record are. The gap does not by itself settle what any investigation might find.\n\n## A \"B-team\" question with no evidence either way\n\nMuch of the early reaction has turned on who, if anyone, benefits. Reddy addressed this directly on Wednesday. Swearing \"on God,\" he said he is \"nobody's B-team\" and \"not an arrow released by anyone.\" He said both the TDP and the YSRCP had started campaigns against him once he announced the party, according to [M9 News's Telugu report](https://www.m9.news/telugunews/vijayasai-reddy-launch-parivartan-rajniti-party/amp/).\n\nOnline, the claims point in opposite directions. A [roundup of social media comments by M9 News](https://www.m9.news/telugunews/vijayasai-reddy-parivartan-party-sparks-online-debate/) collected posts alleging that Naidu had arranged the party to split Rayalaseema Reddy votes away from Jagan Mohan Reddy. Other posts alleged the opposite: that Jagan Mohan Reddy arranged it to split Hindu votes from the TDP and Jana Sena. Still others read the saffron flag as a sign of Modi's backing. These are unverified claims. The roundup does not establish how widely they circulate or who posted them, and no evidence has been published supporting any version. Their contradictions are themselves informative: the same launch is being read as help for each of the state's main rivals.\n\nWhat can be documented is the PRP's positioning. Before the launch, Reddy stepped up attacks on the Naidu government, The Indian Express reported. He cited late salary payments to government employees, unemployment and low teacher pay. He also alleged that the ruling party had \"hijacked\" local body elections. At the same time, he was \"frequently praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi.\" The saffron flag and the dharma slogan sit closer to the [Bharatiya Janata Party](/parties/india/bjp)'s cultural appeal than to the YSRCP's. Among early recruits, Telugu Oneindia reported that a Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader, Sumathi Reddy, and Boni Ganesh of a Hindu Scheduled Castes protection group joined on November 6, after former TDP leader O.V. Ramana, a past colleague on the Tirumala temple board, [announced on November 2](https://telugu.oneindia.com/news/andhra-pradesh/tdp-leader-ov-ramana-to-join-vijayasai-reddys-new-political-party-both-share-ttd-board-association-513247.html) that he would leave the TDP for the PRP. None of the reports reviewed for this article named a sitting MLA or MP among the PRP's recruits.\n\n## Where the PRP would sit among Andhra's parties\n\nThe ruling [Telugu Desam Party](/parties/india/tdp), led by [N. Chandrababu Naidu](/politicians/n-chandrababu-naidu), is in alliance with Jana Sena and the BJP both in the state and in the national government. On the 567politics India party chart, the TDP is placed right of center on economics because of its investment-led growth agenda. It sits at a mixed midpoint on social issues. The BJP shares that economic placement but is placed much more socially traditional. Congress sits left of center and moderately progressive. These placements are dated editorial estimates reviewed on November 5, 2026, not measured scores or vote counts. The YSRCP and the PRP are not yet on the chart, so the comparison below covers only the national and state parties already reviewed.\n\nhttps://567politics.com/embed/political-spectrum?country=india\n\nBased on its launch materials, the PRP's economic offer of free electricity, free education and employment guarantees leans toward welfare, while its symbols lean culturally traditional. Whether that combination is coherent, or electorally useful, is not yet testable: there is no manifesto, no candidate list and no polling. Readers comparing it with established parties can use the full [India political spectrum](/political-spectrum?country=india), keeping in mind that a new party has no record to place.\n\n## The Praja Rajyam precedent\n\nAndhra Pradesh has seen an ambitious third party with the same initials before. The film star [Chiranjeevi](/politicians/chiranjeevi) launched the Praja Rajyam Party in 2008, promising social justice and an alternative to both Congress and the TDP. It won 18 seats in the 2009 Assembly election, and Chiranjeevi then merged it into Congress, a process completed in 2011, [NDTV recounted](https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/jagan-reddys-ex-loyalist-vijayasai-reddy-launches-new-party-in-andhra-pradesh-prp-ysrcp-12311975). Jana Sena, founded by [Chiranjeevi's younger brother Pawan Kalyan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawan_Kalyan), took a different route: one seat in 2019, then 21 of the 21 seats it contested in 2024 as part of the TDP-led alliance.\n\nThose two cases bracket the realistic outcomes for a new party in the state. Praja Rajyam had a mass-celebrity founder and still could not break the two-party pattern on its own. Jana Sena became a governing party only by allying with one of the two poles. Reddy has said the PRP will contest all 175 seats; he has not said whether he would consider alliances. In an analysis piece, M9 News argued that his party \"has attracted attention because of the person launching it, not because of any proven political strength.\"\n\n## What would show whether the PRP is a real force\n\nThree things will be measurable before 2029. The first is defections: whether any sitting or recent YSRCP or Congress legislators join, rather than only second- and third-tier leaders, a question [Telugu Times](https://www.telugutimes.net/politics/navyandhra/vijayasai-reddy-launches-parivartana-rajaneethi-party-440132.html) raised on launch day. The second is registration and organization: whether the PRP registers with the Election Commission of India, publishes a constitution and names district units. The third is any test at the ballot box, such as by-elections or local body polls, where vote shares can be compared with the 2024 baseline above.\n\nWhat should not be treated as evidence is the volume of online reaction. Social media comments show that people are arguing about the party, not how many voters would back it. Until a representative survey with published methods measures support, statements about the PRP's popularity, from its founder or his opponents, remain claims.","link_base":"https://567politics.com/news/india-andhra-vijayasai-reddy-parivartana-rajaneethi-party-launch-jagan-naidu-november-2026","citation_guidance":"Cite citation_url. Preserve source links, dates and qualifications. date_modified is an edit date, not proof that every claim was rechecked. Third-party images and quoted material retain their own rights."}