Dola Jagan Mohana Rao, a senior leader of the YSRCP, has joined the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in the presence of its national president, N. Chandrababu Naidu. Rao’s father, Dola Sitaramulu, was an MLA in the Narasannapeta Assembly constituency from 1978 to 1983. Jagan Mohana Rao, after four decades with the Congress, joined the YSRCP a few years after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. He contested from Narasannapeta when he was the president of the Srikakulam District Congress Committee.