IAS officer Yerra Srilakshmi has been a very well-known face to the Telugu community right from the YSR era.She worked as a collector during the Chandrababu regime and used to smile at video conferences. Babu used to hold video conferences for hours together with the officials those days.
She was even arrested back in 2011 for her alleged involvement in the Obulapuram Mining case which also had Gali Janardhan Reddy as the main accused. She was in jail with back pain for some time. Sabitha Indra ready was to look after the Mining ministry.
She was later given a clean chit by the Telangana High Court though.
Despite the corruption allegations and the image-denting arrest, the controversial IAS office is heavily trusted by the YS family.
In fact, even after the arrest, YS Jagan found no wrong in reinstating Srilakshmi in an administrative position. She was appointed as the special chief secretary by Jagan after he became CM.
Srilakshmi tried to formally greet Chandrababu while the CM was holding a conference with the IAS officials. But when Srilakshmi approached Naidu with a flower bouquet, Naidu just touched it and pushed it back.
Srilakshmi looked dejected as Naidu turned down her bouquet with his actions.
