Sharmila pays tribute at YSR memorial

Tirupati: YSR Telangana party chief Y S Sharmila paid tributes to former chief minister and her late father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy at the latter’s memorial in Idupulapaya in

Kadapa

district on Tuesday, ahead of her 4,000-km-long

padayatra

that will take off in Telangana on Wednesday.

Sharmila’s mother Y S Vijayamma and supporters also paid their respects at Dr YSR Ghat in Idupulapaya.

After floating her own political outfit in the neighbouring state, Sharmila disclosed her plans to embark on a 400-day ‘praja prasthanam padayatra’, covering 90 assembly and 14 Parliamentary constituencies in Telangana.

The YSRTP chief will first address a public meeting at Shakarpally crossroads in Rangareddy district. The padayatra will be flagged off by Y S Vijayamma from Chevella constituency.

Sharmila is the third person from the former chief minister’s family to embark on a marathon padayatra.

While Y S Rajasekhara Reddy was the first to go on a 1,475-km-long padayatra, which helped him dethrone TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, and become chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh in 2004, his son and chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy completed a 3,648-km-long padayatra in 2019.