The issue of secret GOs has become a major controversy thanks to TDP actions. The TDP leaders met Governor Biswabhushan Harichandan and lodged a complaint claiming that the Jagan government was uploading blank GOs on its website. The GO number and the date of issuance were uploaded, but the contents are not kept in the public domain, it said. They said that the Jagan government was ignoring the very idea of transparency in administration.

Interestingly, secret GOs were normal during the erstwhile regimes. There were secret GOs during Chandrababu Naidu government. Ditto with YSRCP, Rosaiah and Kira Kumar Reddy governments. In fact, transparency was introduced by YSR after he had won a second time. It was only after 2009 that every GO was uploaded. Keeping some GOs confidential too is not uncommon. This was done in the interest of administrative convenience.

But, TDP, which wanted to derive political mileage and score a brownie point, made this into an unseemly controversy. Reacting to the hullabaloo created by the TDP, the YSRCP has now decided not to place any GO in the public domain. The latest circular issued by Jagan government directed the officials not to upload any GO. The YSRCP government is also worried about leakage of information from within. Now, even normal GOs pertaining to transfers of officials would not be available in the public domain. An unnecessary controversy raked up by the TDP has now led to the complete gag on the uploading of GOs.

It’s been more than two years since YSRCP supremo, and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy assumed the office. The journey has been a bit of ups and lows for him.

While the back-to-back wins in the local body polls and the Tirupati bypoll should be seen as ups, the steady decline in his popularity is a major downfall for him.

CM Jagan who emerged as the third best performing Chief Minister in the Country in the same Mood of the Nation (MOTN) survey conducted last year had failed to repeat the same.

Forget about the best performing Chief Minister category, Jagan Mohan Reddy didn’t even find a spot in the list of Chief Under the category of Most Popular CM’s in their home states.

First time CM Stalin emerged as the most popular CM with 42 percent of approval points. If that can be the reason, Jagan is also implementing his flagship Navaratna welfare schemes.

Despite this, Jagan Mohan Reddy’s approval rating points didn’t see any increase.

So this gives a clear picture that fulfilling the election promises is just one of the factors and it can’t be the main factor that determines the popularity of the Chief Minister.

As per the observations of the analysts and experts, CM Jagan should retrospect himself and address the issues that needed to be sorted.

The issues like the failure of the government to bring more and more companies to make investments to provide employment, lack of development and batting a blind eye towards the infrastructure facilities in the state are also said to be the reasons behind Jagan receiving less approval points.

In the last two years, no big company came to Andhra Pradesh for investment, which is a big concern. The opposition parties have been attacking the government over this.

Well, same is the case with Jagan’s Telangana counterpart KCR.The Chief Ministers of Telugu States have failed to claim a spot in the category of top 10 Chief Ministers in any category.

Looks like, both the Chief Ministers are in the middle of bothering situation and they should focus on how to improve the approval ratings.