On this Day 27 May 2012 Jagan Reddy was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation.

On this Day 27 May 2012 Jagan Reddy was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI has accused that Jaganmohan Reddy has amassed huge assets through illegal means by using his father's office, Y. S. Rajasekhar Reddy, when he was the Chief Minister.

CBI has also accused 58 companies of investing in Reddy's businesses, for the favours they received in the form of mining leases, allotments of projects.

His Judicial custody was extended repeatedly as the investigation proceeded.The Supreme Court dismissed his petition on 4 July 2012 9 August 2012, and on 13 May 2013.

Jaganmohan Reddy started his political career campaigning for Indian National Congress during the 2004 elections in Kadapa district. In 2009, he was elected as Member of Parliament from Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency.

Following the death of his father in September 2009, Jaganmohan Reddy started efforts to take up the political legacy left by his father. The majority of the legislators favored him to be appointed as the Chief Minister, but this choice was not approved by party leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi.

Six months after his father's death, he began an odarpu yatra as promised earlier, to go and meet the families of those alleged to have either committed suicide or suffered ill health on the news of his father's death. The Congress party's central leadership directed him to call off his odarpu yatra,

In the 2019 National and State election held in April and May 2019, YSR Congress Party swept the polls and won 151 of the total 175 assembly seats and 22 of the 25 Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh. He took oath as the Chief Minister on 30 May 2019