On January 4, YS Sharmila (49), the sister of Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, joined the Congress party after failing to sustain her two-year-old political outfit — YSR Telangana Party — in the hope of reviving her political career.
Though the party high command is yet to take a call on her responsibility, it is apparent that she will be asked to take over the reins of the Congress in Andhra Pradesh, as was evident from the presence of All India Congress Committee in-charge of Andhra affairs Manickam Tagore and Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president Gidugu Rudra Raju at the event where she was formally inducted into the party in the presence of party president Mallikarjun Kharge and MP Rahul Gandhi.
The Congress leaders believe that it is a win-win situation. The party once reigned supreme in Andhra Pradesh — it won successive assembly elections in 2004 and 2009 — but was reduced to a non-entity in the state after its bifurcation to create Telangana. It has not won a single assembly or Lok Sabha seat in the last two terms. In the 2019 general elections, the party’s vote share was 1.29%, less than the vote share garnered by NOTA, which was 1.5%.
The reason was that most Congress leaders and party cadre shifted their loyalties to Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, who started the YSR Congress party in 2011. Former chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, former Union minister Daggubati Purandeshwari and MP Kavuri Sambasiva Rao defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), while others joined Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP).
Sharmila, who was struggling to sustain her YSR Telangana party — started in 2021 after her brother kept her out of any party or government position — decided to partner with the Congress ahead of Telangana elections held late last year. The party's high command felt it could employ her in Andhra Pradesh to revive its lost glory.
source:hindustan times
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