{"id":497782,"date":"2024-01-04T12:55:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T07:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=497782"},"modified":"2024-01-04T12:56:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T07:26:23","slug":"ys-sharmila-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/ys-sharmila-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy&#8217;s sister YS Sharmila joins Congress ahead of Lok Sabha polls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Party and sister of&nbsp;of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, joined the Congress today, January 4, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, she declared that the Congress and her YSR Telangana Congress would merge, and she pledged to execute all obligations assigned to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the presence of former party president Rahul Gandhi and party head Mallikarjun Kharge, Sharmila became a member of the Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Praiseing the Congress, she stated that it is the biggest secular party in the nation because it steadfastly supports and brings together all societal groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | YSRTP chief &amp; Andhra Pradesh CM&#39;s sister YS Sharmila joins Congress, in the presence of party president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, in Delhi <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SrAr4TIZTC\">pic.twitter.com\/SrAr4TIZTC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1742780145629565253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharmila said,&nbsp;she and her&nbsp;senior leaders will meet with&nbsp;Kharge and other top Congress officials in Delhi and make a crucial&nbsp;declaration after presiding over her party conference on Tuesday in Hyderabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She announced that she would be delighted to help Rahul Gandhi realise her father&#8217;s dream of becoming prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharmila expressed her happiness at having contributed to the Congress&#8217; win in Telangana. During the recent Telangana assembly votes, she declared her support for the Congress in an effort to put an end to the BRS, led by K Chandrasekhar Rao, and its purportedly corrupt and anti-people policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After joing the party Sharmila said, because the Congress party has a chance of winning the Telangana Assembly elections, she is&nbsp;lending her&nbsp;support to them. During his 9&nbsp;years in office, KCR has not kept any of the promises he made to the public. And for that one reason, she&nbsp;opposed&nbsp;KCR&#8217;s journey to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharmila further said, she&nbsp;tends&nbsp;to draw the Congress vote bank, and as the daughter of the YSR, she&nbsp;risk Congress&#8217;s chance,&nbsp;she had said in a statement released prior to the Telangana assembly elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in Telangana, the Congress secured 64 out of 119 seats to win an absolute majority for the first time. 38 seats were gained by Bharat Rashtra Samithi, which governed the newest state in India for ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharmila said,\u00a0she and her\u00a0senior leaders will meet with\u00a0Kharge and other top Congress officials in Delhi and make a crucial\u00a0declaration after presiding over her party conference on Tuesday in Hyderabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":497784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,125714],"tags":[2136,157996,161552,111,73388,64024,104063],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/01\/04125341\/ezgif-3-9dabb04da7-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497782"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=497782"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=497782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->