Jagan’s ysrcp is not just defeated, it may not even become principal opposition party
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However, if Chandrababu Naidu, his Telugu Desam Party and the Assembly Speaker are in agreement, YSRCP can still name a leader of opposition from within the party. The role of leader of
opposition isn’t alien to Jagan. He essayed the role in 2014 when YSRCP won 67 seats after the division of Andhra Pradesh. In divided Andhra’s first Assembly session, Jagan mocked the then
chief minister Naidu for “widening his eyes and scaring people”, before going on to speak about farmers’ rights. His speech was resoundingly aided with laughter and praise by several of his
party members. On Saturday, June 8, outgoing Animal Husbandry minister Seediri Appalaraju, who lost from Palasa constituency in Srikakulam district, said that YSRCP would play the role of a
constructive opposition. But whether they can do so as the official principal opposition party in the state Assembly is yet to be known.