YSR family deeply attached to Ichchapuram

Smt. Sharmila addressing the people from Vijayavatika at Ichchapuram in Srikakulam district marking the winding up of her Maro Praja Prasthanam Padayatra on Sunday 

Srikakulam, Aug 5, 2013: As Y. S. Sharmila ended her 3112-km and 230-day long Maro Praja Prasthanam Padayatra at Ichchapuram on Sunday, people of Srikakulam district had recalled the YSR family’s decade-long association with the town.

As a matter of sheer coincidence, it was at Ichchapuram from where YSR Congress Party chief Sri Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy began his second round of Odarpu Yatra. It was also at Ichchapuram Dr. YSR ended his historic Praja Prasthanam Padayatra in 2003.

The local residents of Ichchapuram, however, feel that YSR family’s association with the town is not an ordinary one. “The relationship of the YSR family with the town is certainly something special,” said some of the locals, adding that the association, for which YSR had sown the seeds in 2003 through his Praja Prasthanam, has now grown into a full-fledged tree with Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy watering them through his Odarpu Yatra and Smt. Sharmila nursing them with her Maro Praja Prasthanam Padayatra.

“If the relationship is not special, why would YSR end his historic Padayatra here in 2003? Why would Sri Jagan Mohan Reddy launch his second round of Odarpu Yatra from here? And why did Smt. Sharmila also wind up her Maro Praja Prasthanam Padayatra at Ichchapuram only? It all indicates the YSR family has an undefinable relationship with the town and its people,” said some of the locals.