‘Do Not Want KCR To Come To Power’: YS Sharmila Says She Will Affect Cong Vote Bank in 55 Telangana Seats – News18

YSR Telangana Party (YSRTP) president Y S Sharmila Reddy, who opted out of the contest in Telangana, on Monday said her party is extending support to Congress as it stands the chance of winning the state Assembly election.

Sharmila, the daughter of former Andhra Pradesh CM and veteran Congress leader YS Rajsekhara Reddy, said Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has not fulfilled any of the promises he made to the people in his nine-year tenure, ANI reported.

She said if her party contests the election, it may risk the Congress’s chances of winning the polls.

Sharmila, whose brother YS Jagan Reddy is the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, believes that she can affect the grand old party’s vote bank in more than 55 constituencies in Telangana.

Reddy further said Congress would have lost in 20 constituencies if her party contested the assembly elections.

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In a press conference held in Hyderabad on Friday, YS Sharmila Reddy confirmed that her party will support Congress to end the ‘corrupt and dictatorial’ rule of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president K. Chandrashekar Rao.

She also based her withdrawal from the assembly elections on the ground that she was the true heir of her father Rajasekhara Reddy’s legacy who aided Congress to rise in power in Andhra Pradesh twice in 2004 and 2009.

She concluded the press conference with a view that she does not want people to consider her candidature one of the reasons for Congress’s defeat in the state.

2018 TELANGANA RESULTS

In the 2018 Telangana assembly elections, KCR and his Telangana Rashtra Samithi (now Bharat Rashtra Samithi) swept the polls in the state by winning 88 seats out of 119. Congress won 21, AIMIM bagged 7 while the BJP could get only one seat.