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YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was on Saturday, 9 July, elected president for lifetime of Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress (YSRC).
The process was completed on the concluding day of the YSRC's two-day plenary, after the party constitution has been amended to enable Jagan's election as president for a lifetime.
Jagan was last elected the YSRC president at the party plenary in 2017.
Vijayamma resigned from the honorary president's post on Friday, reportedly due to an ongoing rift in the family, but she said she was quitting the YSRC to stand by her daughter Sharmila, who is now heading the YSR Telangana party in the neighbouring state.
The YSRC is citing some precedents wherein certain regional parties in other states secured the ECI's approval to have a president for a lifetime without the need for conducting elections every two years.
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