YSR Congress Party President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy is scheduled to release the first list of candidates for the upcoming assembly elections at Idupulapaya on March 16. Official spokesperson of YSRCP, Talasani Raghuram made this announcement to the media on Wednesday.

Raghuram announced on behalf of the party that YS Jagan would pay homage to his father late Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy at his memorial at Idupulapaya and release the first list subsequently.

He also announced that the YSR Congress Party president would hold his first election meeting in the Gurajala constituency at Piduguralla of Guntur district. The next day YS Jagan would address an election meeting at Narsipatnam constituency of Visakhapatnam district and later Bhogavaram under Nellimarla constituency in Vizianagaram district, the spokesman announced. The same evening the YSRCP president will campaign in the P. Gannavaram constituency in East Godavari district.

YS Jagan would hold election meetings in 3 constituencies every day till March 25 and from that day on, he would hold campaign meetings in four constituencies each day, he added. The party's manifesto would be released in the next few days, the party spokesman said.

YS Jagan had walked through the length and breadth of Andhra Pradesh during the course of his historic walkathon, Praja Sankalpa Yatra, Raghuram added. The YSR Congress Party President covered 134 constituencies in the state as part of his Padayatra, he reminded the media. In all his public meetings and interactions YS Jagan elaborated on the YSRCP's Navaratnalu, he stated.

YS Jagan would travel by bus to reach some constituencies, Raghuram said. In fact, the YSRCP chief was scheduled to undertake a bus yatra but after the election schedule was announced, the programme had to be redrawn, he said.

Honorary president of YSR Congress party, YS Vijayamma and YS Jagan‘s sister, YS Sharmila, would also participate in the election campaign the YSR Congress party spokesman added.

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