YSR Congress party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has decided to put an end to the property disputes with his sister and Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president Y S Sharmila and patch up with her politically as well?
According to an exclusive report in Andhra Jyothy, both brother and sister have come to a compromise on the sharing of properties and bury their differences once and for all.
If that happens, both Jagan and Sharmila families will come together and put up a united fight against their political rivals.
It is an open secret that Sharmila had parted ways with Jagan on two counts: one, he refused to give due share in the family properties to Sharmila; and secondly, he did not want her to play active role in politics.
Being equally ambitious politically, Sharmila staged a revolt against her brother and first entered Telangana politics by floating a regional party but after realising that she did not have enough space there to win the elections, she lobbied with the Congress and entered Andhra Pradesh to head the party.
In the last assembly and general elections in Andhra Pradesh, Sharmila failed to make any impact but she certainly damaged the prospects of her brother’s party – by questioning the failures of his government in the last five years and more particularly, raising the issue of her uncle Y S Vivekananda Reddy’s murder, alleging that he was protecting the killers.
According to the report in Andhra Jyothy, ever since he lost power in the elections, Jagan has been desperately trying to patch up with the Congress and join the United Progressive Alliance, after realising that he would no longer get the patronage of the BJP national leadership.
Jagan has been frequently coming to Bengaluru where he held several rounds of talks with senior Congress leader and Karnataka deputy chief minister D K Shivakumar. However, he realised that Sharmila is the biggest hurdle in the YSRCP joining hands with the Congress.
So, following suggestions from Congress elders and other well-wishers, Jagan reportedly held a meeting with Sharmila and agreed to settle the property disputes.
“The deal is being worked out. Once it is settled, the family will get reunited,” the report said.
But one wonders how it would help Jagan politically in the coming days. There is no possibility of the YSRCP merging with the Congress or vice versa; and there is no way Sharmila will quit the Congress to rejoin the YSRCP. But both the parties might work together to fight the common enemy of NDA, sources said.