Jagan Reddy's Sister's 4,000 Km Telangana Foot March In Challenge To KCR

YS Sharmila has alleged that only Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's family has benefitted from the formation of Telangana.

YS Sharmila, daughter of undivided Andhra Pradesh's late chief minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy, has set off on a 4,000-km foot march across Telangana, just like her father did in 2003 and became chief minister the following year.

Ms Sharmila, 47, started her yatra on Wednesday and intends to cover 12-15 km every day over the next year in her mission to unseat the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi from power.

Ms Sharmila, who had launched the YSR Telangana Party on July 8, the birth anniversary of her father, has alleged that only Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's family has benefitted from the formation of Telangana. She says 7,000 farmers have died by suicide in the last seven years, that many have lost their jobs and that 1.90 lakh jobs that were to be notified never happened.

The YSR Telangana Party leader had taken a 3,000-kilometre foot march in 2013 when her brother Jagan Mohan Reddy was in jail. His party, the YSR Congress, which is in power in neighboring Andhra Pradesh, has distanced itself from the political activity of Sharmila.