In a significant statement, YS Sharmila has said that she might contest from Paler assembly constituency in Khammam. She said that there was a growing demand for her to contest from Paler and she might do so in the next election. This has confirmed the reports that Sharmila would choose Khammam district to contest from.
In fact, the YSRCP had won one MP seat and three MLAs from Khammam district only. All the seats it got were from this district. So, it was only expected that she would choose Khammam for her political entry. Sharmila has also categorically said that she was not ‘anyone’s arrow.’ In her earlier padayatra when Jagan was in prison, she used to claim herself as an arrow released by her brother Jagan. But, this time around, she is claiming that she is no one’s arrow indicating that YS Jagan was not behind her political activism in Telangana.
Meanwhile, YS Sharmila’s to-be-born party got a shot in the arm when Madhira municipal deputy chairperson has resigned the ruling TRS and joined YS Sharmila. Madhira municipal vice chairperson Seelam Vidyalaltha has resigned from the ruling TRS and met YS Sharmila on Tuesday at her Lotus Pond residence. Her husband Seelam Venkat Reddy too accompanied her. She told the media that she would formally join the party on April 9 in Khammam.