‘I didn’t want to split anti-KCR vote’: YS Sharmila on why her party isn’t in Telangana race

Two years ago, YS Sharmila formed the YSR Telangana Party. After a failed attempt to join hands with the Congress, Sharmila announced that she would not contest this Telangana election. So why did Sharmila make the decision? Why did she choose to start her political party in Telangana and not Andhra Pradesh? How would her late father, former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, have reacted to her political debut? 

In this conversation with TNM’s Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna, Sharmila speaks about her political journey and her decision to stay away from elections.

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