Soumitra Bose
New Delhi (The Hawk): Next Telengana CM is now almost fixed: Y S Sharmila, already in Congres from the Anti-Congress lobby. She is taking help, assistance from Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shiv Kumar to cajole, coax Congress President Mallikarjuna Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanaka Gandhi…A meeting with Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar followed by a tweet wishing Rahul Gandhi on his birthday by YS Sharmila has triggered speculation about her merging YSR Telangana Party, which was formed after a rift with her Chief Minister brother. The buzz is that the merger may happen on July 8 in Idupulapaaya in the Kadapa district when Sharmila’s party completes two years. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul are speculated to visit Kadapa on July 8 and pay tributes to Y S Rajashekhar Reddy, a Congress Chief Minister who died in a plane crash. Sources in YSR Telangana Party said it is “too premature” to talk about Sharmila joining or merging her party with Congress. They said she did meet Shivakumar in Bengaluru but it was “purely personal”. A section in Telangana Congress is also circumstances A section in Telangana Congress is also circumspect about inducting Sharmila, as they believe it would be counterproductive as her father was against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and formation of Telangana. Jagan and her family had split from the Congress after senior Reddy’s death. Sharmila had joined Jagan’s ‘Odarpu Yatra’ to meet families of people who died of shock or who took their own lives following the death of Reddy. However, Sharmila too fell However, Sharmila too fell out with her brother and formed her party in 2021. Their mother Vijayamma also resigned from YSR Congress headed by Jagan and joined hands with Sharmila.