YS Sharmila, the Andhra Pradesh Congress chief and sister of state Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy, on Thursday said that she had to spend the night at party office amid fears of house arrest.
In a video shared on ‘X’, Sharmila who recently joined Congress is seen sleeping at the floor of the Congress party office in Vijayawada.
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This comes a day after she led a protest at Andhra secretariat against his brother’s government over unemployment and other issues.
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Speaking to mediapersons, Sharmila said that the Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh has failed to address the issues of youth, unemployed and students.
She had also expressed fears that his brother’s government is planning to put her under house-arrest.
“If we call for protest on behalf of the unemployed, will you try to keep us under house arrest? Don’t we have the right to protest in a democracy? Is it not shameful that as a woman I have been forced to evade the police and spend the night in the Congress Party office to avoid house arrest?” she wrote on X.
Last month, the Congress party had appointed YS Sharmila, sister of Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy as the president of the state unit in a bid to revive the party and its fortunes ahead of the general elections.
The move came just two weeks after Sharmila merged her party, YSR Telangana Party with the Congress.
The Andhra Pradesh Assembly polls will be held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha polls. It is going to be a bipolar contest between N Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP which is in alliance with Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena, and Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSRCP.
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