As the polling day (May 13) draws closer, the campaign clamour grows shriller by the day, with leaders of political parties engaging in no holds barred harangues against each other and social media platforms getting flooded with political powwows.
The main challenge for the incumbent Chief Minister and president of YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is to get the better of the formidable TDP-JSP-BJP alliance, while the Congress party, headed by his own sister Y.S. Sharmila, has become a cause of added stress to him.