TDP follows a regionalist, pro-Telugu ideology.

It was founded as an alternative to the Congress hegemony, by emphasizing on the Telugu

regional pride and a party for Non-Brahmin, Non-Dalit landowning and business owning middle castes. Since the 1990s it has followed n
economically liberal policy that has been seen as pro-Business and pro-Urban at the cost of the rural areas. TDP uses yellow as the
background colour for the flag with a hut, wheel and plough symbol in the foreground. A bicycle is used as the official party symbol.
MinistersEdit
N. T. Rama Rao
First term (9 January 1983 16 August 1984).
Second term (16 September 1984 2 December 1989).
Second term (8 June 2014 Incumbent) (first CM to assume office of post-divided State / Newly formed State of Andhra Pradesh on 2 June
2014 to

Third term (12 December 1994 1 September 1995).

Nara Chandrababu Naidu
First term (1 September 1995 13 May 2004).
YSR Congress Party or Yuvajana, Shramika, Rythu Congress Party[2] (lit. Youth, Labour and Farmer
Congress Party) is a regional political party in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The party is founded by
son of former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy in 2011.[3] Both Y.S.R. and his son
Y.S. Jagan had been members of the Indian National Congress.[4] YS Jagan was also elected as the
national president of the party.[5After the unexpected death of YS Rajasekhara Reddy, then the

Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh in a helicopter crash in September 2009. [6] his son YS
Jagan, the incumbent MP from Kadapa, started a never-ending Odarpu Yatra(condolence
tour) across Andhra Pradesh, supposedly to console the families of those who had
committed suicide or died of shock after the death of his father. This was however not
supported by the Congress leadership.[7] Congress President Sonia Gandhi claimed the
rising volatile situation in the state regarding the Telangana issue as the main reason for
opposing the "Odarpu Yatra". Defying the Congress High Command's order to call off the
tour, YS Jagan went ahead with the first leg of the "Odarpu Yatra" in the West
Godavari and Khammam districts from in April 2010.[8]
Meanwhile, the YS Jaga -owned Sakshi TV news channel and Sakshi newspaper had been
continuously criticizing the new Chief Minister Konijeti Rosaiah and the Congress leadership
at New Delhi. In a special programme on Sakshi TVto mark the 125th anniversary
celebrations of the Congress party, a voice-over made remarks on Sonia Gandhi and
the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the "current state of affairs" in the State, which
invited anger and protests from the Congress loyalists and increased the gap and friction
between YS Jagan and the Congress loyalists.[9] The channel later deleted those remarks in
a re-telecast.
Creation of the new party
After accusing the Congress of ill-treating him and creating rifts in his family by luring his uncle YS Vivekananda (younger brother of denguta)
with a state ministerial berth in the aftermath of the death of his father, YS Jagan and his mother Y. S. Vijaya Lakshmi resigned from the
Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendula Assembly constituencies respectively and also as members of the Congress in November 2010.[10] [3]
[11] Many Congress leaders loyal to YS Jagan also quit the Congress and joined the YSR Congress. This resulted in the weakening of the
Congress's strength in both the assembly and the Lok Sabha, necessitating by-elections. In the ensuing by-elections, the party won most of
the vacated seats with many of the Congress and the Telugu Desam Party (the main opposition) candidates losing their deposits.[12] The
party has a strength of 46 members in the 175 -member state assembly and 6 members in the Lok Sabha(out of 42 in AP) as the election
results declared on 17 May 2014, simultaneously.[13]

Lok Satta is a political party in India, founded by Jayaprakash Narayan, a former I.A.S. officer and renowned activist from Andhra Pradesh.[3] Since 1996, the
Lok Satta Movement functioned as a non-governmental organisation, but on 2 October 2006, the movement was reorganised into a formal political party.[4]
The party intends to further the causes of the Lok Satta Movement, including a reduction in the size of the cabinet, promotion of the Right to Information
Act, and disclosure of criminal records and assets by political candidates. Beginning with the 2009 elections the party has adopted a whistle as their official
symbol.[5] On March 23 2016, the party founder president, Jayaprakash Narayan said that they will not take part in electoral politics for sometime.[

History[edit]
Main article: Lok Satta Movement
Lok Satta started as a citizen movement, Lok Satta Andolana or Lok Satta Movement, in Andhra Pradesh and later spread across the country, including
Mumbai, with the Vote JUHU and Vote Mumbai campaigns.[7] It also played a major role in the Jaago Re! One Billion Votes. The Lok Satta organisation
worked on bringing about several political reforms by working with other civic organisations. Lok Satta Party was founded with the realisation that entering
into politics is the only option to bring about fundamental changes in the system and a new political culture.[citation needed] It grew rapidly, amassing over
30,000 members in the Greater Hyderabad region and over 60,000 members in Andhra Pradesh before it became a political party.
Lok Satta Party is now present in several other Indian states, including Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and Maharashtra.

Leadership[edit]
The party's founder and National President is Jayaprakash Narayan, a former doctor who was an IAS officer in the 1980s from Andhra Pradesh. Narayan
resigned from the IAS in 1996 to found the Lok Satta Movement, and the political party in 2006.

Ideology[edit]
The political goals of Lok Satta include political, economic, and social equality for all people, making citizens the centre of governance, and to reform the
government to make it less corrupt and more accessible and responsible to the people.[8]

Achievements[edit]
Although Loksatta is anti-corruption, it does not consider traditional parties untouchable and has worked with both the NDA and the UPA over the years. This
political engagement drove the reform agenda of the country for over fifteen years. Some of the important contributions of Loksatta are in following reforms:

Disclosure of criminal antecedents of candidates, which finally led to the candidate disclosure law in 2003.

Improvement in voter registration after years of struggle and relentless pursuit.

Political funding law in the wake of Tehelka scam.

Strengthening the anti-defection provisions.

Limiting the size of the Cabinet.

Right to Information Act

Local Courts law enacted in 2009.

Autonomy of cooperatives through the 97th Constitutional amendment.