Elections 2019: Jagan Mohan Reddy's challenging journey ends in success

Jagan's YSRCP won 151 or 86 per cent of the total seats in the 175-member House in the Assembly election

For Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, the position of chief minister came at the end of a 25-year long leadership pursuit in the Congress. Swearing-in as chief minister this week is his son and Y S R Congress Party (YSRCP) President Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, who has reached the post in just over eight years, after charting out his own po­litical course back in November 2010. 

But for him, these eight years were packed with challenges and the end-of-the-road moments. 

Jagan — as people and his party workers call him — last week achieved a monumental victory for the YSRCP in the