Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy Tuesday offered prayers at Raja Shyamala Devi temple at Sri Sarada Peetham in Visakhapatnam.
On reaching here from Vijayawada, he proceeded to the ashram.
This was his first visit to the city after his landslide victory in the Lok Sabha election and took over as the Chief Minister of the state.
Jagan offered fruit, flowers and silk cloth to the Swamiji and took blessings from the Peethadhipati Swaroopanandendra Saraswathi.
Chief Minister held discussions with the Swamiji for some time in the ashram.
Earlier, the priests at the ashram welcomed Chief Minster with poornakumbham.
Also, he offered prayers at the other temples located in the ashram.
The Swamiji has several VVIP followers, including Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao who had visited the ashram earlier and took blessings from the Swamiji. A large number of party workers and leaders and well-wishers greeted the chief minister.
The Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) members thanked the chief minister for increasing their salary from ₹ 3000 to ₹ 10,000.
YSRCP Rajya Sabha member V Vijay Sai Reddy, legislators M Srinivasa Rao, T Nagi Reddy, G Amarnath, Karanam Dharmasri were present there.
Later, Jagan Mohan Reddy left for Vijayawada.
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