It’s curtains for YSRTP as Sharmila says no objection to join Congress
The Hindu
YSR Telangana Party chief Y.S. Sharmila to join Congress, strengthen party in Telangana & Andhra Pradesh.
After months of delay, YSR Telangana Party chief Y.S. Sharmila has announced that she has no objection to joining the Congress party.
After wide ranging consultations with the Congress leadership, she might announce the merger of her party in the Congress. Ms. Sharmila on Tuesday held broad-based meeting with senior party leaders at the Lotus Pond headquarters of the YSRTP and later travelled to Idupulapaya in YSR Kadapa district in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh to present the wedding card of her son Raja Reddy at the memorial of Late Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
After paying tributes to her father, she announced that the YSRTP has decided to strengthen the Congress party. “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 said adding that towards this direction, she would be travelling to New Delhi on Wednesday.
“You will get all the answers shortly,” Ms. Sharmila said pointing out that she had taken a conscious decision to work with the Congress party 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 said.
She claimed that in as many as 31 Assembly segments, the Congress candidates won with a majority of under 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 noted.
Indications suggest that the Congress party while giving her due respect and position would like to utilise her services in the upcoming Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh. It would be interesting to see how she takes on her brother and Chief Minister Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy and his YSR Congress Party, which is keen on winning the elections for a second time in a row.
Founded on July 8, 2021, coinciding with the birth anniversary of her father and late Chief Minister of united Andhra Pradesh Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Ms. Sharmila chose to take the political plunge full time in Telangana. Unfazed by the ‘Andhra tag’, Ms. Sharmila made a bold announcement that she being the (daughter-in-law) of Telangana had every right to pursue politics in the youngest State of the country.
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