Hyderabad: Police stopped the indefinite fast of YSR Telangana Party (YSRTP) president Y.S. Sharmila and shifted her to a hospital here in the small hours of Sunday, after her health deteriorated.Sharmila had launched the indefinite hunger strike at the party headquarters here on Friday in protest against alleged denial of permission to continue her statewide ‘padayatra’. Her brother, Jagan Mohan Reddy, is currently the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.Police forced media personnel, party leaders and cadres, to move away from the location and foiled Sharmila’s fast before she was “forcefully” shifted to the hospital at around 1.00 AM today, the party said.Sharmila did not even consume water, which resulted in her health condition deteriorating rapidly, it said.Doctors who were monitoring her health stated that Sharmila’s blood pressure and glucose levels had fallen to alarming levels, and expressed concern over dehydration which could lead to electrolyte imbalance, potent enough to pose danger to her kidneys, a release from the party said.Sharmila, daughter of former chief minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, submitted a memorandum to the Ambedkar statue near Hussain Sagar lake on Friday in protest against denial of permission to her ‘padayatra’ and sought to hold a fast there.“The court had initially given us permission to hold padyatra. This is apart from the original permission that we have. Despite all this, KCR government has denied us the permission to conduct a padyatra. All my party cadres were arrested yesterday,” Sharmila had told India Today.Since fasts are not allowed at the Ambedkar statue where activities like garlanding and submission of memoranda take place usually, she was shifted to her party office at Lotus Pond locality here, police had said.At the end of last month, Sharmila’s car had been towed away while she sat in it, leading to a war of words between her and the ruling party in Telangana. “For the past 223 days, me and my party leaders and representatives are holding a peaceful padyatra to highlight the plight of various sections of people in Telangana. Our rising popularity has jolted Chief Minister KCR and his partymen, who want to stop me at any cost,” she had said then.(With PTI inputs)