Hyderabad: Y.S. Sharmila, sister of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy, is about to affix the Congress and merge the YSR Telangana Celebration (YSRTP) which she had launched in 2021.
She is anticipated to be given a distinguished place within the All India Congress Committee (AICC) or made the Andhra Pradesh unit chief, YSRTP basic secretary Thudi Devender Reddy mentioned Tuesday.
Whereas the speak final yr was that Sharmila, daughter of united Andhra Pradesh’s former Congress chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR), would be part of the social gathering, the thrill now’s that her political exercise could be centered in Andhra Pradesh, the place her elder brother is the chief minister.
Andhra Pradesh will go to the polls this summer season concurrently with the final elections.
On Tuesday, Sharmila held a concluding spherical of consultations with YSRTP leaders at her residence in Hyderabad. The becoming a member of could be quickly in all chance this Thursday, Thudi instructed ThePrint after the assembly.
“The process of YSRTP merger with Congress is in the final stage. Sharmila has decided to go to Delhi Wednesday, and an announcement on merger, future courses will be made there,” mentioned a short official assertion from the social gathering.
Thudi, nevertheless, instructed ThePrint that Sharmila, is scheduled to satisfy Sonia and Rahul Gandhi Thursday morning and that AICC chief Mallikarjun Kharge would later formally welcome her into the social gathering.
“Some negotiations are still on. Sharmila is being offered a key position in AICC, or the role of Andhra Pradesh Congress chief. She is considering both. One prospect certain as of now is her Rajya Sabha nomination from Karnataka,” Thudi mentioned.
Within the night, Sharmila’s household provided prayers on the YSR grave Idupulapaya close to Kadapa, in search of blessings forward of her son Raja Reddy’s wedding ceremony subsequent month.
“We sitting out the Telangana elections, extending support has eased the Congress win in over 30 constituencies. The Congress leadership has valued our sacrifice and welcomed me into the party. I too have no objection in working with the largest secular party in the country,” mentioned Sharmila later .
“In fact, I am going to Delhi tomorrow. All your questions will be answered in a day or two,” Sharmila mentioned as reporters requested about her position in AP politics.
After parting methods with Jagan early 2021, Sharmila shaped the social gathering named after her father on 8 July (YSR’s birthday) that yr. Whereas Jagan efficiently claimed the YSR legacy in Andhra Pradesh, Sharmila acknowledged her goal was to revive Rajannna Raajyam (reference to YSR’s in style welfare-oriented regime) in Telangana.
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‘YSR’s daughter welcome’
Andhra Congress leaders are assured in regards to the social gathering’s revival with the entry of Sharmila and she or he main a vigorous marketing campaign. She had earlier canvassed for Jagan’s YSRCP energetically throughout the state, drawing massive crowds to the ballot rallies.
However Sharmila’s personal electoral power and vote-pulling capability has not been examined as she has not contested any polls until now.
Following the Andhra Pradesh bifurcation, the Congress, since 2014 polls, has been worn out from the meeting and Lok Sabha within the truncated state the place it had earlier gained in 2004 and 2009 polls.
At a celebration assembly at Amalapuram Monday, Congress state chief Gidugu Rudraraju mentioned that the management has already conveyed the choice to take Sharmila in, “and they are wholeheartedly welcoming late YSR’s daughter into the Congress.”
“The state unit leaders are unanimously welcoming the decision and Sharmila’s entry. Now, what role, responsibility she would be given, and how her services would be utilised is the high command’s call,” APCC working president Shaikh Mastan Vali instructed ThePrint.
Gidugu is hopeful of YSRCP dissenters becoming a member of the Congress, including that a number of sitting and former legislators “are in touch with the party.”
YSRCP Mangalagiri MLA Alla Ramakrishna Reddy, who lately stop the social gathering in protest of Jagan eradicating him as constituency in-charge, final week prolonged assist to Sharmila. He’s prone to be part of the Congress with Sharmila.
Futile mission in Telangana?
YSR’s widow Y.S. Vijayamma has been supportive of Sharmila’s enterprise in Telangana. On 8 July 2022, she introduced resignation from the YSRCP honorary president put up within the presence of Jagan on the social gathering plenary close to Vijayawada.
Earlier, Sharmila had made the previous Telangana CM Ok. Chandrasekhar Rao and the BRS leaders, legislators her principal goal of political assaults. She additionally went on a 3,800 km padayatra throughout Telangana, all of the whereas drawing sharp reactions from the then ruling social gathering together with her caustic remarks.
From earlier final yr, Sharmila appeared veering in the direction of the Congress, hopeful of a merger or an alliance. The talks of an alliance or a merger with the Congress gained traction since Sharmila met Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.Ok. Shivakumar in Bengaluru in Could. She had on 31 August met Sonia and Rahul in New Delhi.
The plan was shelved as Telangana Congress leaders expressed divergent views over her inclusion in any kind particularly forward of the state polls. TPCC chief Revanth Reddy had made public his opposition to Sharmila as “a person from Andhra.”
Sharmila then introduced to go alone within the Telangana polls, including she could be in fray from Palair section in Khammam, an space adjoining Andhra Pradesh. However in early November, she withdrew from the competition, declaring her assist for the Congress.
“When Sharmila shifts to AP, Telangana natives like me would rejoin the Congress here,” Thudi, from the Nalgonda area, whose household has been tradionally with the Congress, mentioned.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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