The affidavit of assets filed by APCC president YS Sharmila with her nomination for Kadapa Lok Sabha has exposed that her differences with her brother and chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy are related to share in family property, but not political issues as many visualized.
Though in her campaign speeches she has been very critical about her brother’s politics and governance, in her affidavit she honestly mentioned about her debts to brother Rs 82.5 crore and further Rs 19.5 lakh debts to her sister-in-law Bharathi (wife of CM Jagan).
Moreover, on Sunday she even gave some clear indications on her rift with brother with regard to share in family property. She said “Any brother in the society should give his sister a share of property. It is the right of a girl child. The brother has a responsibility to give”.
She also asserted that it is the responsibility of the brother to look after the children of his sister stating that because it is the uncle who takes the place after the mother. This is a rule that everyone naturally follows, she said.
However, indicating her displeasure towards brother, she said some people consider the share of property to be given to the sister as their share. “There are no people in the society who give a gift to their sister. On the other hand, there are some who give a loan to their sister. This is a fact. Our whole family knows this,” she added.
When she started a regional political party in Telangana, many felt that she did not want to disturb his brother in Andhra Pradesh and also not to be seen as an alternate `power center’ there, she preferred to focus on Telangana. Even some political observers felt that she started the party on the guidance of YS Jagan so that to divide anti- KCR Reddy’s vote bank, so that to help his friend KCR in polls.
But suddenly without contesting in Telangana elections she merged her party with Congress and surprisingly surfaced in Andhra Pradesh as APCC chief. On the otherhand, she has decided to contest herself from Kadapa Lok Sabha, her family fortress, challenging YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s supremacy at native place.
