Ys Vijayalakshmi

YSR Congress Party honorary president YS Vijayalakshmi will begin her indefinite fast in Guntur on Monday to protest Centre's decision to carve out separate Telangana from Andhra Pradesh, party sources said in Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday.

With Jagan Mohan Reddy in jail, his sister Sharmila will keep up the political momentum for the YSR Congress party. She will start on a 3000-kilometre padyatra today from her father YS Rajasekhara Reddy's final resting place at Idupulapaya in Kadapa district.

The heat and the wait did not deter nearly thousands who showed up in Narasannapet this afternoon. When Jagan Mohan Reddy's mother arrived, the crowd roared its support. "I am grateful," said Vijayalakshmi, or Vijayamma as she is known in these areas of Andhra Pradesh, areas whose political allegiance was held near effortlessly by her husband, YSR...

YSR Congress Party honorary president YS Vijayalakshmi will begin her indefinite fast in Guntur on Monday to protest Centre's decision to carve out separate Telangana from Andhra Pradesh, party sources said in Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday.

With Jagan Mohan Reddy in jail, his sister Sharmila will keep up the political momentum for the YSR Congress party. She will start on a 3000-kilometre padyatra today from her father YS Rajasekhara Reddy's final resting place at Idupulapaya in Kadapa district.

The heat and the wait did not deter nearly thousands who showed up in Narasannapet this afternoon. When Jagan Mohan Reddy's mother arrived, the crowd roared its support. "I am grateful," said Vijayalakshmi, or Vijayamma as she is known in these areas of Andhra Pradesh, areas whose political allegiance was held near effortlessly by her husband, YSR...