Update On Praja Sankalpa Yatra

Six months after his father's death, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy began an odarpu yatra (condolence tour) as promised earlier to go and meet the families of those alleged to have either committed suicide or suffered ill health on the news of his father's death.

This time around, YS Jagan's Praja Sankalpa Yatra began on November 6.The padayatra will cover 125 Assembly constituencies in 13 districts of Andhra Pradesh. The Padayatra started from Idupulapaya and conclude at Ichapuram, a village where his father had ended his walkathon in 2003. It is relevant to recall that YSR's daughter Sharmila, undertook a long padayatra--Maro Praja Prasthanam, during the course of which she toured 116 constituencies in 14 districts covering a distance of 3,112 kilometres over a period of nine months.