Y.S. Sharmila.
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After months of delay, YSR Telangana Party chief Y.S. Sharmila has introduced that she has no objection to becoming a member of the Congress celebration.
After vast ranging consultations with the Congress management, she may announce the merger of her celebration within the Congress. Ms. Sharmila on Tuesday held broad-based assembly with senior celebration leaders on the Lotus Pond headquarters of the YSRTP and later travelled to Idupulapaya in YSR Kadapa district in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh to current the marriage card of her son Raja Reddy on the memorial of Late Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
After paying tributes to her father, she introduced that the YSRTP has determined to strengthen the Congress celebration. “Congress alone is the biggest secular party in the country that gives security to everyone. That’s why we have decided to strengthen the party,” she stated including that in direction of this path, she could be travelling to New Delhi on Wednesday.
“You will get all the answers shortly,” Ms. Sharmila stated stating that she had taken a acutely aware choice to work with the Congress celebration earlier. “We had backed the Congress party in Telangana Assembly elections. YSRTP had also played a crucial role in dethroning the BRS government,” Ms. Sharmila stated.
She claimed that in as many as 31 Assembly segments, the Congress candidates received with a majority of below 10,000 votes. “This is because YSRTP did not contest the elections. If we were in the fray, the results would have been different,” she famous.
Indications counsel that the Congress celebration whereas giving her due respect and place would love to utilise her providers within the upcoming Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh. It could be fascinating to see how she takes on her brother and Chief Minister Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy and his YSR Congress Party, which is eager on profitable the elections for a second time in a row.
Founded on July 8, 2021, coinciding with the start anniversary of her father and late Chief Minister of united Andhra Pradesh Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Ms. Sharmila selected to take the political plunge full time in Telangana. Unfazed by the ‘Andhra tag’, Ms. Sharmila made a daring announcement that she being the (daughter-in-law) of Telangana had each proper to pursue politics within the youngest State of the nation.
That she meant enterprise was evident when she selected to undertake over 4,000 km walkathon (Maro Praja Prasthanam padayatra) overlaying all of the 119 Assembly constituencies in Telangana earlier than the 2023 12 months finish Assembly polls. She launched the padayatra from Chevella, a sentimental constituency for her late father. It was this constituency, that Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy selected to begin his historic padayatra in 2003, then represented by Congress MLA P. Sabitha Indra Reddy, whom he affectionately known as ‘Chevella Chellamma’ (Chevella Sister) that turned the wave in direction of the Congress celebration’s return to energy.
The YSRTP chief’s bid to align with the Congress earlier than the Telangana Assembly elections was thwarted by none apart from TPCC chief and current Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy. He had expressed reservations that her entry might show counter productive and given an ammunition to the Opposition events, particularly the BRS, to goal the Congress for aligning with the ‘Andhra party’. Ms. Sharmila introduced her choice to contest the TS Assembly elections however took a ‘U’ flip in lower than per week saying her celebration will assist the Congress.
On the entire, her shut to 30-months of political journey in Telangana heartland didn’t make the specified influence as her celebration had to at all times fend off the ‘outsider’ tag.
