'No Development In Andhra Over 5 Years': YS Sharmila Takes Oath As APCC Chief, Slams Brother Jagan Reddy

YS Sharmila launched a scathing attack on the ruling YSRCP led by her brother and CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, and the TDP. She claimed there had been no development in Andhra in the last five years.

YS Sharmila Assumes Charge As Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee President ( Image Source :PTI )

New Delhi: Days after YS Sharmila was appointed APCC president by the Congress party high command, she took oath in the presence of senior leaders of the party and hundreds of cadres in Vijaywada on Sunday. 

 

According to PTI, the newly sworn-in APCC president thanked senior Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge for reposing their faith and entrusting her with the responsibility. 

 

Sharmila said, "YS Rajasekhara Reddy took up the PCC (president) post two times and went on to be the chief minister two times. Again, believing in Rajasekhara Reddy's child Y S Sharmila, Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, (Mallikarjun) Kharge and the elders of the Congress party have given that responsibility".

 

Later, YS Sharmila launched a scathing attack on the ruling YSRCP led by her brother and Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, and the TDP. She claimed that there had been no development in Andhra Pradesh in the last five years under the YSRCP government, and five years prior to that under the TDP's rule, reported PTI. She also alleged that the YSRCP and TDP governments had pushed Andhra Pradesh into debt of about Rs 10 lakh crore. 

 

As per PTI, the APCC president questioned if Andhra Pradesh has a capital city or funds to build one and added that not a single city in the state has a Metro train facility. According to Sharmila, Andhra Pradesh has witnessed a 100 per cent rise in atrocities against Dalits and illegal sand mining.

 

Notably, Sharmila stated that Andhra Pradesh did not receive special status even 10 years post bifurcation. She also juxtaposed Andhra Pradesh to Himachal Pradesh and pointed out that the latter managed to attract several industries after being accorded the special status.  

 

Sharmila further said that Jagan Mohan Reddy fought for special status for the state as long as he was in the Opposition, but had not done so after becoming the chief minister. Holding the YSRCP and the TDP equally responsible for Andhra Pradesh not getting special status, she said both parties have become stooges of the BJP and surrendered to it and that both were "two sides of the same coin".  Sharmila asserted that any vote to either the YSRCP or the TDP would be a vote for the BJP as the two parties have "supported" the saffron party in all its endeavours.