YS Sharmila’s transfer was endorsed by her mom YS Vijayalakshmi (File)
Hyderabad: YS Sharmila Reddy, the daughter of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, has introduced that she’s going to launch her political social gathering in Telangana on July 8, her father’s beginning anniversary.
Ms Sharmila’s transfer was endorsed by her mom YS Vijayalakshmi, who mentioned she was comfortable her daughter had chosen to serve the folks of Telangana. She added that her daughter had the identical guts as her father.
This got here on Friday night at a Sankalpa Sabha, a public assembly in Khammam after a large automobile rally from Hyderabad to the border district, the place the YSR Congress – the ruling social gathering of Andhra Pradesh, headed by Ms Sharmila’s brother YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, did effectively in elections after Telangana was shaped.
Jagan Mohan Reddy has distanced himself from his youthful sister’s political plans in Telangana, proper after she made a public announcement about turning into politically energetic within the state.
The title, emblem, flag and beliefs of Ms Sharmila’s social gathering can be unveiled on July 8. Meeting elections are due in Telangana in 2023.
“Singham eppudu single gane vasthundi,” she mentioned, utilizing a preferred Rajinikanth dialogue from the movie Sivaji, likening herself to a lion that strides alone.
She additionally clarified that she had not come on the behest of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), BJP or Congress however can be an arrow that may goal all three events on behalf of the folks.
On April 15, Ms Sharmila will sit on a starvation strike for 3 days on behalf of the unemployed youth demanding that the TRS authorities fill 1.91 lakh job vacancies. This has been a sizzling political challenge in Telangana.
Attempting to blunt criticism about not belonging to Telangana (YSR was from Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh), Ms Sharmila mentioned she had grown up, studied, and gave beginning to her kids within the state. She mentioned she beloved Telangana and would by no means act towards its curiosity.
“I cannot permit even one drop of water that ought to come to Telangana go to a different state,” she mentioned.
Water has been a contentious challenge between the Telangana and Andhra areas of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh.
There was hypothesis about who Ms Sharmila could assist or damage, politically. It’s potential that Reddys, who had been politically influential in Telangana in the course of the Congress rule, might rally round her. She may appeal to the SC/ST vote, apart from those that admired her father.
The TRS is the dominant political power in Telangana. The Congress has weakened, and the BJP is looking for a political foothold in what it sees as a political vacuum within the opposition house.
