Jagan Mohan's dramatic rebellion against the Congress, his amazing wealth and the sheer irascibility with which he conducts himself fit in nicely if one places him in his family tree - from an ancestor who converted to Christianity to escape poverty to a grandfather who went on to become a mining baron, and a father who changed the course of Andhra politics.
At the turn of the 20th century, Y S Venkat Reddy, a poor farmer, lived in Balanpur village of Cuddapah district in the Madras presidency. That he was impoverished was not surprising: he had a large family with 10 children to feed and lived in an area with such harsh terrain that it hardly got any rainfall. Four hundred years of neglect by rulers who held sway in this area had ruined the population there. Life was difficult in those parts with no source of income and the more adventurous amongst them took to looting after organising themselves into gangs.
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