It is the end of the road for Y.S. Sharmila in Telangana as she merged her YSR Telangana Party (YSRTP) with the Congress in New Delhi on Thursday and along with it her political aspirations in Telangana, a State that she claimed was her home as she was born and brought up here apart from marrying a Telangana man.
It has been a roller coaster political journey for her in Telangana in the last two and half years after she launched the YSRTP to create some political space for her cashing in on the goodwill of her father Y.S. Rajashekhar Reddy, who continues to be popular in Telangana 14 years after he died in a helicopter crash in the most tragic circumstances when he was still the Chief Minister of the combined Andhra Pradesh. His popularity has not diminished much in Telangana despite his strong opposition to the State bifurcation.
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