Key Points
Reddy was the Chief Minister when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government bifurcated Andhra Pradesh and created a separate state of Telangana in 2014..
He was against the division of the state and opposed the move both within and outside the Assembly and became the first Congress Chief Minister in the history of the grand old party to stage a sit-in in the heart of the national capital..
Reddy had been appointed Andhra CM on November 25, 2010, after septuagenarian K Rosaiah, who held the fort for Congress for over a year following the death of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash in September 2009, resigned..
Political analysts at the time predicted that the cricketer-turned-politician would not remain in office for more than a few months given the fluid political situation in Andhra Pradesh on account of the Telangana agitation and the Jagan Mohan Reddy factor..
Reddy was not made either a working president of the state unit or included the 18-member Political Affairs Committee, and found a place only in an APCC Coordination Committee..
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