YSRCP Launches 'Jagan 2.0 Super App' to Empower Party Workers

In a move widely seen as emulating Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay, YSRCP president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy Friday launched the ‘Jagan 2.0 Super App’ — a platform meant to connect party workers with the leadership. Launching the app at the party office in Tadepalli, Andhra Pradesh, YSRCP leaders said the “Jagan 2.0 Super App” is a dedicated digital platform that will connect every party worker directly with the leadership and enable them to express their views without fear. This comes a year after Tamil actor-turned-politician ‘Thalapathi’ Vijay launched TVK 2, with “2” representing both the second year of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) and a new political wave that built momentum, especially among the youth, ahead of the party’s stunning landslide victory in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. Jagan said the party had launched the app at a time when content posted by YSRCP supporters on social media was being arbitrarily deleted and attempts were being made to suppress their voice through conspiracies. He did not say who was behind the deletions. To counter such efforts, he said, the party had created its own platform where every activist could freely express opinions and remain connected with the organisation. Since it is the party’s own app and will be used by its cadre, no outside force will have the right to arbitrarily delete their content, he said. Jagan said the app would connect every worker and leader, from the grassroots to the party’s central office and from the constituency to the state level. Through the app, workers would be able to directly share public issues from the field, problems faced by party activists due to alleged police harassment, and other party-related matters, ensuring constant communication within the organisation. He said all party meetings, media briefings, important programmes and official announcements would be available to every activist through live feeds on the app. The platform would be further developed so that whenever a party worker faced a difficulty, they could post the issue on the app and the party could respond. Leaders and workers from the village to the state level would then be able to stand by the affected cadre. Jagan said the “digital diary” currently used to record details of alleged police harassment and political victimisation of party workers would also be integrated with the Super App, allowing activists facing harassment or other problems to directly file complaints and record details through the app itself. He said the party would continue to challenge objectionable criticism, videos and comments against the YSRCP on other social media platforms and seek their removal wherever necessary. At the same time, the party had built its own Super App in a manner that “cannot be stopped by anyone.”