Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president Y S Sharmila on Tuesday asserted that she did not need the sympathy of her brother and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on her prospects in the coming elections to Kadapa Lok Sabha seat.
“There is no need for Jagan anna to feel pity for me. I am asking him a straight question. If he really feels sorry for me, thinking I may lose my deposit in Kadapa, why can’t he make Avinash Reddy withdraw from the contest? Can’t he do even this much, if he has so much affection for his sister?” Sharmila asked.
She pointed out that her aunt – Y S Showbhagya, widow of slain minister Y S Vivekananda Reddy, had requested Jagan to drop Avinash Reddy from the contest, as the latter was one of the accused in the murder case.
“Why can’t you oblige her request?” she asked.
Sharmila asked why Jagan had roped in his entire family into the campaign, if he had so much confidence about her defeat in Kadapa.
“Why are your party people have launched a tirade against me, questioning my credentials, my birth and my name, without even realising that I am the daughter of YSR and sister of Jagan?” she asked.
She alleged that the YSRCP workers are trolled her on social media and fabricating stories against her, only because they were afraid that she would win the seat.
“I am making it clear to Jagan. I am forced to enter the fray in Kadapa, only because he has given the ticket to Avinash Reddy to contest the elections again, despite the fact that he was an accused in the murder. I would not have contested the elections, had it been any other candidate,” she asserted.
Sharmila reiterated that the Congress was no way responsible for inclusion of YSR’s name in the chargesheet against Jagan and it was done at the behest of Jagan, who got a petition filed in the Supreme Court through advocate Ponnavolu Sudhakar Reddy.
“Jagan has conspired to name YSR in the chargesheet only to get out of the CBI cases against him. It is atrocious that he is trying to throw the blame on the Congress,” she said.