New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury has warned that the merger between Congress and YSRTP will have a negative impact on the former.
Her remarks came in the wake of the reports of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) President Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy's estranged sister Y.S. Sharmila planning to merge the YSR Telangana Party (YSRTP) with the Congress.
The former Union Minister Chowdhury, said, "Let us see, these are all political opportunities and opportunism that they take to establish their own credential."
"This is like when you go on a diplomatic thing, you present your diplomatic credential to be accepted," she added.
"After speaking negatively about our president, about leaders suddenly there is this dawning of wisdom that they want to come. And they spread stories like this and nothing else," Chowdhury said.
When asked if Congress will benefit from the merger, she added, "They will benefit from Congress. Anyone who comes to Congress gets benefitted. It is like the Ganges, people come and take bathe, and their sins are washed. But Ganges doesn't get affected, that is Congress."
In Andhra Pradesh, Congress is on a sticky wicket after the YSRCP inducted a majority of Congress leaders and it could look to rebuild the organization with a part of YSR's legacy that comes with Sharmila.
Elections in Andhra Pradesh are scheduled in less than a year.
With inputs from IANS