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New Delhi: On Thursday, Founder of YSR Telangana Party and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister YS Sharmila joined the Congress party. On social media platform X, Videos shared showed Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi present at the event.
She had arrived in the national capital late on Wednesday. After joining, she said, “Congress party is still the largest secular party of our country and it has always upheld the true culture of India and built foundations of our nation.”
On reaching Delhi airport, when Sharmila was asked whether she was joining Congress, she told reporters, ‘Yes, it seems so.’Sharmila, daughter of former Andhra Pradesh CM late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR), has now decided to take the plunge after talks between her and former YSRCP MP Y V Subba Reddy, her uncle, failed.
After chairing her party meeting in Hyderabad on Tuesday, Sharmila had said she and other leaders would meet the top Congress leadership, including AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, and make an “important” announcement in Delhi. Sources said Jagan had sent Subba Reddy as his emissary to convince Sharmila to join YSRCP as he felt his influence and image across the state would be affected if his sister joins the fray in the state.
During the recent assembly polls in Telangana, Sharmila had announced her support to the Congress to end the alleged corrupt and anti-people rule of the BRS led by K Chandrasekhar Rao.The brother-sister duo parted ways, politically, in July 2021 after Sharmila floated her outfit in Telangana.
