Alla Nani Resigns From YSRCP

After its defeat in the Andhra Pradesh elections, the YSRCP is facing continuous setbacks. Thousands of prominent leaders have resigned and joined the ruling TDP, Janasena and BJP, while even more others are waiting to resign and don the NDA parties' scarves.

In a fresh development, Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas (Alla Nani), a senior leader and a close confidante of Jagan, resigned from the party in a bombshell announcement.

Nani, who is the most prominent face of the YSRCP in the combined West Godavari district, also resigned from the post of Eluru district party president and constituency in-charge.

He said that he was resigning due to personal reasons, and also that he had decided to stay away from direct politics from now on.

Nani has sent his resignation letter to party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy in this regard.

There is a lot of chatter in YSRCP circles that Nani has been unhappy with the developments in the party in the last few days. His main followers and the second-rung leaders have not responded anywhere on the development. Will the YSRCP high command accept the resignation or will Jagan pacify him by summoning him to his Tadepalli palace is the big question that is doing the rounds of the party circles.

Nani was a four-time MLA. In the 2004 and 2009 elections he contested on a Congress ticket and won. After YSR's death he joined the YSR Congress Party in the presence of Jagan. He contested for the first time on behalf of the YSRCP in the 2014 elections, and was defeated by TDP candidate Badeti Kota Rama Rao. In 2017 he was given an MLC seat as he was close to YSR's family.

In the 2019 elections Nani contested from the same constituency, and won by a margin of 4,072 votes. The YSRCP also came to power with 151 seats, and he was inducted into the cabinet and even made Deputy Chief Minister, holding the portfolios of health and family welfare. In the 2024 elections he lost badly, as part of the YSRCP's general rout. He initially participated in the party programs after that, but started staying away from them after some time.