She is making a fool of herself by misusing her family name ‘YS’: Sajjala

Vijaywada: Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president Y S Sharmila is misusing her family name to create confusion among people but is making a fool of herself, a senior leader of the ruling YSR Congress party said on Sunday.

Senior party leader S Ramakrishna Reddy, who is advisor (public affairs) to the YSRCP government in the state, said all the party leaders are feeling bad after listening to the choice of worlds and tone and tenor of Sharmila’s speech after taking over as the APCC chief and the manner in which she addressed her brother.

“She is making a fool of herself by misusing her family name ‘YS’ to create confusion among people. There is no room for that confusion and there is no need for anyone to get confused," Ramakrishna Reddy told reporters.

He said that party activists have been hurt by her attack on her elder brother.

Ramakrishna Reddy said he felt a sense of ‘pity’ for Sharmila as she emerged suddenly in Andhra Pradesh after her ‘experiments’ in Telangana.

He sought to remind Sharmila that it was the same party which jailed her brother Jagan Mohan Reddy allegedly illegally for 16 months and also included her father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s name in corruption cases.

Congress leader in AP

Y S Sharmila, the daughter of former chief minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy assumed charge as the new president of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee in Vijayawada on Sunday. On the first day of assuming charge, Sharmila targeted her brother and chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy alleging him for landing Andhra Pradesh into debt trap.

Her statements against Jagan Mohan Reddy will trigger a political fight between the siblings in the poll-bound state. Sharmila’s political aspirations were scuttled by her brother Jagan and she could not find space in the new scheme of things.