Sharmila joins Congress, calls it homecoming

YS Sharmila, founder of YSR Telangana Party has joined Congress in the presence of the party president Mallikarjun Kharge in New Delhi on Thursday

New Delhi: YS Sharmila, the daughter of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy and founder of YSR Telangana Party, joined the Congress here on Thursday.She also announced the merger of her party, the YSR Telangana Congress, with the Congress, and said she would fulfil any responsibility given to her. Sharmila joined the Congress in the presence of party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and former party president Rahul Gandhi.

Lauding the Congress, she said it was the largest secular party in the country as it served all communities and united all sections of people.

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Stating it was her father’s dream to see Rahul Gandhi as the Prime Minister and that she would be happy to contribute to the cause, Sharmila said she was happy that she was part of the Congress victory in Telangana. She had announced her support to the Congress during the recent assembly polls in Telangana to end the BRS rule.

In a post on X, Sharmila later said she was delighted on merging the YSR Telangana Party with the Congress.

“The party that my father belonged to, the party that he lived in, that he served tirelessly, and breathed his last in. This moment would make him most ecstatic and nothing can be more heartening than this homecoming for me,” she said.