Telangana politician YS Sharmila issued a challenge to Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao or KCR today, offering a pair of new shoes as a “gift” in exchange for walking with her for a day as they observed people’s problems.
“Today, challenge KCR, with the shoebox presented to him, to walk with me in a padayatra (march),” said YS Sharmila, the chief of the YSR Telangana Party, displaying the shoes to reporters in Hyderabad.
“This is as per your size and there is a bill to exchange the shoes if they don’t fit,” she quipped.
If she was wrong about the state’s people having issues, Ms. Sharmila declared, she would “retire permanently and go home.” She emphasised that if not, KCR must step down as chief minister and apologise to the Telangana people.
“If in fact as KCR says this is the golden state, if there are no problems to the people of Telangana, if my people are not reeling under poverty as he says, then I will apologise to Mr KCR and I will retire from politics for ever and go back home,” Ms Sharmila told reporters.
“But if in fact there are problems for the people of Telangana, if in fact farmers are reeling under debt, if in fact the women are reeling under poverty, if there are unemployed, if there are suicides, if all that is true, then KCR has to resign, he has to apologise to people of Telangana and make a Dalit the chief minister as he promised.”
Jagan Reddy, the Chief Minister of the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh, has a sister named Ms. Sharmila. In preparation for the Telangana election later this year, she has been travelling the state as part of her “Prajaprasthanam Padayatra.” After an alleged attack on her convoy last year, the tour was halted.
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