Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president Y S Sharmila on Friday kickstarted her election campaign with a bus yatra from Amagampalli village of Kasinayana block in YSR Kadapa district, along with her cousin Narreddy Sunitha, daughter of slain former minister Y S Vivekananda Reddy.
Both Sharmila and Sunitha made their brother, YSR Congress president and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, as their prime target in the elections, giving a call to the people to pull him down from power for the betterment of Andhra Pradesh.
Addressing a rally before commencing the yatra, Sharmila said the state cannot witness development unless Jagan is dethroned from power.
“There will be peace in the state and murder politics will come to an end only if Jagan is defeated,” she said.
Stating that Jagan is encouraging murder politics in the state, the PCC president said he is misusing his power to shield those who were involved in the murder of Vivekananda Reddy.
Sharmila said she had decided to contest the elections from Kadapa parliamentary constituency only to prevent the killers of Vivekananda Reddy from entering Parliament again.
“On one side, here is Sharmila who is fighting for justice to Vivekananda Reddy’s daughter; on the other, there is the YSRCP candidate who perpetrated the murder and wanted to buy voters with money power. It is for the people to decide,” she said.
Sunitha said her father had always wished to see Sharmila as a Lok Sabha member.
“They got my father murdered only for political gains; and are contesting the elections again for the same political gains,” she alleged and called upon the people to vote for Sharmila in the coming elections.
She went on to say that Jagan is afraid of facing Sharmila in Kadapa.
“Sharmila is creating tremors in his party,” she observed.
