YS Sharmila joins Congress, merges YSRTP ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha polls

YS Sharmila joins Congress, merges YSRTP ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha polls

YS Sharmila, founder and president of YSR Telangana Party and sister of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy, on Thursday joined the Congress party in New Delhi.

#WATCH | YSRTP chief & Andhra Pradesh CM's sister YS Sharmila joins Congress, in the presence of party president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, in Delhi pic.twitter.com/SrAr4TIZTC

VIDEO | "Today, I am very happy to be merging YSR Telangana party into the Congress party. It gives me immense joy that the YSR Telangana Party is going to be a part of the Indian National Congress from today onwards," says YS Sharmila after the merger of YSR Telangana Party into… pic.twitter.com/OMyGyTUHib

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Sharmila joined the party in the presence of Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi.

This development comes shortly after the Congress swept the Assembly polls in Telangana, ending the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) dominance in the state.

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She is the daughter of the former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy, and the sister of the current Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.

During the recently held 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.