Sharmila’s joining Congress will strengthen the party in Andhra Pradesh. Sharmila is the sister of Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy. As soon as he joined Congress, he also announced the merger of his party YSR Telangana with Congress.

Sharmila said that my father’s dream was that Rahul Gandhi should become the Prime Minister, I am happy that I will work for it. Sharmila said that as a Christian, she was deeply saddened by the Manipur violence. This is what will happen if the secular party is not in power.

YS Sharmila is the daughter of former Andhra CM YS Rajasekhara Reddy. Rajasekhara Reddy was in Congress. He died in a plane crash when he was CM. After her death, when the party did not make Sharmila’s brother Jagan Mohan Reddy the CM, Jagan Mohan formed his own party YSR Congress.

Initially Sharmila became the YSR Congress Party convenor and campaigned in Andhra along with her brother and mother. In 2021, due to differences with his brother, he broke ties with YSR Congress and formed a new party YSR Telangana Party in Telangana. 

Who is Y. S. Sharmila?

Y. S. Sharmila is an Indian politician and the sister of Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Y.S. Sharmila belongs to the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP), the same political party as her brother.

Yeduguri Sandinti Sharmila Reddy (born 1974), also known as Y. S. Sharmila, is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress. She is the younger sister of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and the daughter of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and Y. S. Vijayamma. She worked as the party convener for the YSR Congress Party.

Political career of Y. S. Sharmila

Early political career
Sharmila made headlines after she took up campaigning on behalf of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) along with her mother Y. S. Vijayamma, in the absence of her elder brother Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy from June 2012 in Andhra Pradesh. YSRCP won 15 of the 18 assembly seats and 1 of 1 Parliament seat for which the by-elections were held.

Sharmila began her 3,000 km-walkathon (1,900 mi) at Idupulapaya in Kadapa district on 18 October 2012. She completed it on 4 August 2013 in Ichchapuram. She toured 14 districts as part of the walkathon.

Before the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Sharmila undertook an 11-day bus Yatra across Andhra Pradesh in branded buses with a “Bye Bye Babu” timer clock, suggesting that it was time for the then Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.The campaign under the name “Praja Theerpu – Bye Bye Babu” covered 1,553 km (965 mi) and 39 public addresses. She also handed out over 20,000 autographed caps.[citation needed]

YSR Telangana Party
In February 2021, Sharmila stated that she had political differences with her brother, Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is the founder of the Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party, and claimed there was no presence of the party in the state of Telangana.

On 9 April 2021, Sharmila had announced that she would launch a new political party on 8 July 2021 in Telangana. She chose the date because it is the birth date of her father, Rajasekhara Reddy. Ahead of the party’s launch, she has started campaigning against the incumbent Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government.

On 8 July 2021, she announced the formation of the YSR Telangana Party.

During November 2023, Y.S. Sharmila declared that her party would abstain from participating in the Telangana Legislative Assembly election. She delivered this announcement to the media at an event in Hyderabad. Sharmila acknowledged the electoral potential for the Congress party and underscored that their aim was not to undermine the Congress but rather to pledge support if the Congress were to assume power, ensuring the successful implementation of their policies.

Return to Congress Party

Sharmila joined and merged her party into the Indian National Congress on 4 January 2024 in the presence of AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi.

Personal life

Sharmila was born into a Reddy political-business family to Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and Vijayamma in Hyderabad She has two children. Sharmila has an elder brother Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is the current Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. She resides in Hyderabad.

We are ready in Nagpur, Maharashtra on the 139th Foundation Day of Congress. Former President Rahul Gandhi claimed in the rally, ‘Many BJP MPs meet me. A BJP MP secretly met me in the Lok Sabha and told me that he cannot tolerate being in the BJP. Orders come from above, we have to follow. Whether you like it or not, slavery continues in BJP. Whatever is said from above, has to be done without thinking.’

He further said, ‘When our state Congress President Nana Patole asked what benefits the farmers got from GST, he did not like this question. The party showed him the way out.’

Attacked on RSS and BJP 
Rahul Gandhi said, ‘We are asked what did Congress do? If he had come to the country before independence, he would have met 500 to 600 kings and the British. The people of India had no rights in this country. If the king liked a poor person’s land, he would take it away in a second. The Constitution has protected all the rights of everyone. It was created by Babasaheb Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. People of RSS and BJP were against the Constitution, today they hoist the flag, but did not salute the tricolor for many years.’

He said, ‘All rights come from the Constitution. Congress has done this work. This was done for the first time in thousands of years of history. For the first time a vote was cast. Our ideology says that the reins of the country should be with the people of India. The country should not be run the way kings used to run it.’

Mentioned the Election Commission and the Supreme Court
Rahul Gandhi said that the Supreme Court and the Election Commission or any other institution is yours, but these people (BJP) are occupying it. Are. All the Vice Chancellors today belong to one organization. They don’t know anything. Vice Chancellors today are not made on merit. If you are in an organization then you can become Vice Chancellor. 

Mentioned PM Modi 
Rahul Gandhi took aim at how many people PM Modi has provided employment to in the last ten years. The power of our youth is getting wasted. He said that youth cannot live on social needs. 

What to say about OBC, Dalit and tribal?
Rahul Gandhi attacked BJP and said that this is not the government of OBC. He said, ‘I asked the people of BJP in the Parliament that India is run by 90 people. There are officers of the country who distribute the entire budget. I asked how many of these are OBCs, how many are Dalits and how many are tribals? BJP people became silent on this question.’

He further said, ‘OBC constitutes at least 50 percent of the population. Whereas the Dalit population is about 15 percent. The tribal population is about 12 percent. Out of 90 officers, three come from OBC community, in such a situation what kind of OBC government is running.’

He said that it is on this issue that I said that caste census should be conducted. As soon as he says this, PM Modi’s speech changes. Earlier he (PM Modi) used to call himself OBC and now he says that there is only one caste in India. For this reason, we have decided that when the government comes, we will show it by conducting a caste census. 

What did you say on Bharat Jodo Yatra?
Rahul Gandhi, while referring to Bharat Jodo Yatra, said that we had gone from Kashmir to Kanyakumari to open a shop of love in the market of hatred. . The country must unite. If you want to open a shop of love then you are also a Congressman.