Kavitha reiterated her demand to know who had leaked her letter to K Chandrashekar Rao.
Published May 30, 2025 | 4:12 PM ⚊ Updated May 30, 2025 | 4:12 PM
BRS MLC K Kavitha.
Synopsis: BRS MLC K Kavitha said she does not intend to float a new party, and is aiming at strengthening the pink party. She added that merging the BRS with the BJP will tantamount to her admitting guilt in the Delhi liquor policy case.
A day after launching a veiled attack on her brother and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Working President KT Rama Rao, party MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha on Friday, 30 May, reiterated her opposition to the organisation merging with the BJP.
Kavitha on Thursday, 29 May, said a conspiracy was launched to merge the BRS with the BJP, and she was being targeted on social media for opposing the covert move. Though she did not mention anyone while speaking to the media in Hyderabad, the target ostensibly was Rama Rao, popularly known as KTR.
On Friday, Kavitha informally met reporters at Srirampur in the Mancherial district, where she has been trying to consolidate her position in the coal belt. The MLC — daughter of BRS President K Chandrashekar Rao — denied harbouring any intention to float a new party.
Kavitha reiterated that the merger proposal first came up when she was remanded in Tihar jail in the Delhi liquor policy case. “No party that had joined hands with the BJP had survived long,” she said.
Telangana Jagruthi leaders and workers accorded her a rousing reception when her impressive motorcade arrived at Srirampur. As expected, no BRS leader was present, probably fearing a reprisal from the party leadership.
The MLC said the “conspiracy” had hurt her deeply and that she felt that there was no need to have any understanding with the BJP. She said that she had mentioned that the BRS should keep the BJP at bay in a letter she had written to her father.
The same letter was leaked to the media, and Kavitha demanded to know who was behind it. She said she had only conveyed the feelings of the party workers that BRS should keep the BJP away.
The BRS leader said that she opposed the merger because she wanted the party to grow and become much stronger. “I intended to protect the BRS,” she said.
She felt that if the BRS merged with the BJP, it would tantamount to admitting guilt in the Delhi liquor policy case. She claimed not guilty, and added that even the court had made a similar observation.
Kavitha said she had no intention of forming a new party but wanted to know who leaked her letter to KCR. The BRS leader said that she had worked hard in the party during the days of the Telangana movement and helped the party win the 2014 elections.
Despite her significant contribution, some forces in the party were trying to sideline her, and the latest instance of leaking the letter was meant to embarrass her. She said she had no personal agenda and that her only aim was to strengthen the BRS.
Earlier, Kavitha met the family members of journalist Munir, who passed away recently due to ill health. She later targeted the BJP for continuing Operation Kagar and for failing to show even a modicum of humanity by not handing over the body of senior Maoist leader Nambala Keshava Rao to his family.
Rao, aka Basavaraj, 71, was killed in an anti-Maoist operation in Chhattisgarh on 21 May.
She also took a swipe at Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy for the protocol breach involving Peddapalli MP Gaddam Vamsi Krishna, “because he was a Dalit” during the inauguration of the Saraswati Pushkaralu at Kaleswaram recently.
Kavitha said Revanth Reddy’s aversion to Dalits became clear when he made the Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka sit on a seat lower than his during the inauguration ceremony of the renovated Yadadri Gutta Temple.
(Edited by Majnu Babu).
