CM Jagan’s Sister Sharmila Will Join Congress Very Soon

Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister, YS Sharmila, will join the Congress party on January 4, 2024. Earlier in December 2023, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) chief Gidugu Rudra Raju said that YS Sharmila would be joining the Congress party very soon. It came a few days after the Congress party swept the assembly polls in Telangana, ending the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) party dominance in the state.

However, YS Sharmila said she had political differences with her brother and stressed that the YSRCP has no presence in Telangana. In July 2021, Sharmila also declared the formation of the YSR Telangana Party and began campaigning against the erstwhile K. Chandrashekar Rao-led government. Earlier, YSRTP chief YS Sharmila had announced that she would not contest the Telangana assembly polls.

Meanwhile, YS Sharmila made headlines in 2012, when Telangana was not a separate state and was a part of united Andhra Pradesh. Sharmila’s brother, Jagan Mohan Reddy, parted ways with the Congress and formed the new YSR CP. However, with Jagan Mohan Reddy in jail after being arrested on corruption charges, his mother, YS Vijayamma, and sister, YS Sharmila, led the YSR Congress party campaign.