As part of the negotiations in Telangana, YS Sharmila met Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in Delhi, as well as the party's Karnataka unit president DK Shivakumar. According to sources, her possible entry divided the Congress into two camps
Speaking at a party meeting, Sharmila said she waited for four months for a response from the Congress leadership on her proposal to merge her party or work with the grand old party.
The Congress is set to sound the poll bugle in Telangana by holding the first meeting of the newly constituted Congress Working Committee in Hyderabad on September 16, which will be followed by a public rally and an outreach programme in all the Assembly constituencies, attended by members of the highest decision making body of the party.
K Kavitha, an MLC and daughter of BRS chief KCR, had earlier staged a dharna in Delhi, demanding that 33 per cent of seats in legislative assemblies be reserved for women