What's in a name, people might ask. But a cabinet colleague of Andhra Pradesh chief minister and YSR Congress party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy thinks there is definitely something in the name.
So, state minister for women development, child welfare and senior citizens K V Ushasri Charan has changed her name. She will now be called in all the official documents as Usha Sri Charan.
Usha, who got elected for the first time as an MLA from YSR Congress party ticket from Kalyanadurgam in Anantapur district in 2019 assembly elections, has applied to the chief minister’s office and the other department officials concerned two months ago requesting that her name is Usha and her husband’s name is Sri Charan.
All these days, the YSRC leader did not bother to change her name in the official records, party programmes and even official programmes because she was only an MLA.
But when she became the minister for the first time in Jagan’s cabinet during the cabinet reshuffle in April, Usha thought it is better to change her name, because she is a popular person now and she is feeling embarrassed when everybody was calling her Ushasri, instead of Usha.
So, she applied to the authorities for a name change. But it did not happen so easily and it had to undergo a lot of process. Even the CMO did not give approval for the name change immediately.
After running from pillar to post for nearly two months, she finally got her name changed in the official records as Usha Sri Charan, instead of Ushasri Charan.
The official orders were issued on Wednesday.
In fact, Usha is not the first person to have her name changed. In the past, former minister and present YSR Congress party’s Rajya Sabha member Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, too, got his name changed to Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao soon after becoming a minister in Jagan’s cabinet in 2019.
The General Administration Department got the name change done for him within a couple of weeks and included the same in the official records.
