Days after YSR Telangana Party chief Y. S. Sharmila, daughter of former Chief Minister late Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy announced her decision not to fight the Assembly elections in Telangana and support the Congress party, key leaders from the district units quit the party en masse on Tuesday.
At a press conference held in Hyderabad on Tuesday, YSRTP leader Gattu Ramachandra Rao tendered unconditional apology to the people of Telangana for hurting them. “We supported Sharmila wholeheartedly in her party activities. Now the time has come to boycott Sharmila in Telangana. She has contempt for the people of Telangana,” he said.
Stating that the YSRTP chief was ‘unfit’ for politics, Mr. Ramachandra Rao said all those who decided to come out of the party would shortly announce their future course of action.
