In the daughter-versus-daughter drama, Sharmila and Kavita have been exchanging political statements on each other in public and on social media platforms, much to the amusement of observers.
Kavitha, daughter of Telangana Chief Minister KCR, targeted Sharmila, the founder of the Yuvajana Shramik Rythu Telangana Party (no relation to her brother YS Jagan’s YSRCP), with her verbal statements. Sharmila had on Monday accused TRS workers of attacking her convoy at Warangal’s Lingagiri village and trying to prevent her from meeting people in Telangana. Sharmila is the founder of YSR Telangana Party and sister of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Kavita said that Sharmila and her party were mere tools of the BJP to make sweeping and baseless allegations/statements against the TRS as they feared the hold of the regional party in the state.
Sharmila has been traveling across the state, emulating her brother Jagan’s Odarpu yatra in neighboring Andhra Pradesh, to garner support for her party YSR Congress Telangana ahead of the 2023 assembly elections.
When BJP leaders including State President Bandi Sanjay, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy and other party leaders came out in support of Sharmila and condemned the attack on her, Kavita sarcastically called the YSR Congress “BJP’s arrow”- It is being used by a party to target TRS.
Taking a dig at the poem, Sharmila retaliated in verse as well. “There is no dearth of poems in the pink (TRS party colour) garden known only for posts but not for work,” he wrote.
He said that MLC Kavita is in the party only because she belongs to a politically influential family. Sharmila accused Kavita of neither doing a walkathon nor solving people’s problems, but of being just a showpiece in the guise of TRS.
To counter this, Kavitha unleashed her inner rhymer and penned a poem, describing Sharmila as a BJP plant in Telangana. Kavita took to Twitter to post her poetic words, “The lotus flowers were singing the song of the arrows shot by them.” Using the Telugu words for “lotus secret” and “orange parrot”, Kavitha also reminded Sharmila that she is perceived as just another political tourist working on behalf of the BJP, not the struggles. knew, as the Rao family emerged from Telangana. motion.
“The people of Telangana are smart enough to differentiate between milk and water. Till yesterday your vote was in Pulivendula (Andhra Pradesh) and now it seems you have changed your path to Telangana BJP. Unlike you, I am neither a political tourist nor have come to politics after coming to power, but born in the Telangana movement,” said Kavita in her poem.
On Monday, Sharmila faced an attack along with the caravan in which she used to take rest as part of her ongoing ‘Praja Prasthanam Padayatra’. The caravan bus was allegedly set on fire by TRS workers. Some cars in the convoy were also damaged.
To prove her point how TRS used brute force to stop her, Sharmila made a dramatic entry in Hyderabad. The bound Sharmila used one of these damaged cars to try to enter Pragathi Bhavan, the official residence of the Chief Minister of Telangana. When the police stopped him, he refused to get down. The police then called a towing vehicle and towed away the car, with Sharmila still sitting in the car. Amidst this high drama, Sharmila was arrested and later released on bail.
Finding no political space in the state politics of Andhra Pradesh with her brother as chief minister, Sharmila launched her own party in neighboring Telangana in July 2021 to establish her political career. Sharmila has the support of those who were loyal to her father YS Rajasekhara Reddy, who was a popular chief minister of united Andhra Pradesh (before Telangana was bifurcated to become a new state). His party is expected to contest the 2023 assembly elections on its own and contest all the 119 seats in the state.
Kavita has served as TRS’s Lok Sabha MP from Nizamabad from 2014 to 2019 and is currently a member of the Nizamabad Legislative Council.
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