Y.S. Sharmila, daughter of the late Congress leader and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, and sister of Andhra CM Jagan Mohan Reddy, has floated a new party—the YSR Congress Telangana—to take on Telangana CM K. Chandrashekar Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samiti. Political analysts feel her party may be a non-starter as she is considered a “rank outsider”, but she tells M.S. Shanker that her party will storm to power in the 2023 assembly polls. Excerpts from the interview: