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Published May 24, 2025 | 11:43 AM ⚊ Updated May 24, 2025 | 11:43 AM
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Synopsis: This is one leak that BRS never wanted to happen. MLC K Kavitha’s letter to KCR was leaked at a time she was abroad, and it has set tongues wagging.
BRS MLC Kavitha Kalvakuntla has gone into full legacy-retrieval mode. She appears to have decided that she should inherit her father, K Chandrashekar Rao’s, political crown, and no one else.
After simmering quietly while her brother, KT Rama Rao, stole the spotlight, Kavitha appears to have rolled up her sleeves and tossed her hat into the ring.
All hell broke loose after a confidential letter she wrote to her father, detailing the managerial gaffes in running the party, somehow found its way into the public domain while she was out of the country. Coincidence? Or a twist in the plot?
The million-dollar question: who leaked the letter? Social media had a field day, and KCR, reportedly bewildered, was left asking, “Who leaked it?”
Is there a deeper drama brewing? — one that is meant to sideline her long enough to make her comeback to the centre stage of the party tricky?
Kavitha’s political ambitions have never been a secret. In fact, during the BRS’s glory days, she was said to firmly believe that she had a stronger claim to her father’s throne than her ever-eloquent brother.
This reporter remembers asking her once, rather cheekily, why KCR didn’t just pass the baton to his daughter instead of KTR. She paused, looked at me, and coolly replied, “Why not?”.
Now, with KTR clearly in pole position, Kavitha seems determined to claim her pound of political flesh. Sources suggest that the letter’s sudden appearance in the public domain might just be her way of saying: “Ignore me at your own risk.”
And the grapevine says she is reportedly none too thrilled with her father’s soft stance on the BJP, which she blames for her remand term in jail in the Delhi liquor policy case.
As palace intrigue thickens, the saga is starting to resemble a political Game of Thrones—minus the dragons, but with plenty of sharp tongues and strategic leaks. Brace yourselves. The sequel could be spicier than the original.
