Ever since the YSR Congress faced a severe defeat in the 2024 elections, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has been holding one or two review meetings every month. Following the loss, Jagan shifted base to Bengaluru and occasionally visits Tadepalli for these internal gatherings.
The visuals from these review meetings are later uploaded to YouTube, featuring only Jagan’s speeches. These sessions usually happen in one of two venues at his Tadepalli residence. One is a small office space, presumably Jagan’s own, which accommodates 15–20 people, with Jagan seated at the head and others across the table.
The second venue is a larger conference room that can host around 60–70 people. Jagan typically speaks from an elevated podium, addressing seated leaders who simply listen. Across several such videos, one thing stands out clearly—it’s always Jagan who speaks, and the rest merely listen, whether attentively or otherwise.
Jagan’s speeches follow a familiar pattern: he starts by praising his own governance and then moves on to criticize Chandrababu Naidu’s government. Nowhere in these videos do the leaders get a chance to speak or express their feedback. This has reportedly been his style since the start of his political journey.
Between 2019 and 2024, Jagan functioned inside what many described as a “glass chamber,” where criticism never entered, but flattery echoed loudly. Despite the heavy 2024 defeat, his habit of not listening to party members continues unchanged. In fact, most are not even allowed to speak at all.
This creates a troubling scenario. When flaws go undiscussed and uncorrected, the party is at risk. While this kind of leadership may have seemed acceptable while in power, continuing the same approach after securing just eleven seats will only worsen YSR Congress’s internal crisis.
