To Support Congress, YSR Telangana Party will not Contest Telangana Assembly Polls

Hyderabad: The YSR Telangana Party has decided not to contest in the assembly polls to be held in Telangana on November 30. It would support the opposition Congress.

This decision was declared on Friday by YSRTP president Y S Sharmila, the daughter of the late chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.

Sharmila had earlier held discussions with Congress high command for merger or for a pre-poll alliance but it did not materialise.

Sharmila said, her party has taken this decision to stop splitting of anti-government votes to end the “corrupt and anti-people rule” of BRS led by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.

“We have no intention to hurt Congress party or its leaders,” she said.

She said she has fear that “history may not forgive her” if she splits the Congress’s vote and Chandrasekhar Rao becomes chief minister again.