Bharati, a post graduate in business administration, told PTI that she would now play a bigger role in the businesses though she has been involved in running the corporate affairs albeit in a different way.
Her mother-in-law Y S Vijaya Lakshmi and sister-in-law Sharmila have taken over the mantle of the party's campaigning for the June 12 bye-elections to 18 assembly seats and one Lok Sabha constituency.
"Actually, I have always been part of businesses. For the past one-and-a-half years, since he (Jagan) had no time, so I have been taking a bigger role in business," she said.
Dismissing the allegations of corruption surrounding Jagan, she said all the businesses of the family are run like an "open book".
"Who was Jagan Mohan Reddy, till he became an MP? He was nobody. He was not a minister, not an MLA. He was no one in the government. We shifted to Bangalore in 2002. We moved here (Hyderabad) only in 2010. A year after my father-in-law passed away, we moved here. Not before that," she said.