Kavitha visited three tribal girls admitted to NIMS with complaints of food poisoning and targeted the state government for such repeating incidents.
Published Nov 23, 2024 | 9:33 PM ⚊ Updated Nov 23, 2024 | 9:33 PM
BRS MLC K Kavitha. (X)
Months after she was released on bail, Kavitha Kalvakuntla is all set to make a roaring comeback to public life. This, she has chosen, to do with an onslaught against businessman Gautam Adani and Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy. As she returns to active public life, Kavitha has chosen a mission – Backward Classes and their cause.
BRS MLC K Kavitha visited three tribal schoolgirls admitted to the Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) on Saturday, 23 November, sparking speculation that she is ending her sabbatical.
The girls were hospitalised with symptoms of food poisoning after having food in the tribal welfare hostel at Wankidi in the Komrambhim-Asifabad district in the first week of November. Kavitha said the condition of one of the girls is critical.
“Her condition is very critical. She is comatose. I pray to God that she would survive her ordeal and come out cured,” Kavitha said after the visit.
Expectedly, she lashed out at Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, asking him why he was not taking food poisoning incidents in schools seriously.
“When the BRS was in power, KCR used to review the status of the schools and hostels. But now the schools are no longer safe. Every 10 days, one student is dying at one school or the hostel,” she said.
She recalled how the staff had served food infested with worms for breakfast to the students even after their hospitalisation at Maganur in Narayanpet district.
Kavitha also demanded the government pay ₹10 lakh each to the parents of 42 students who had died of food poisoning in different gurukuls over some time.
వాంకిడి గిరిజన బాలికల ఆశ్రమ పాఠశాలలో కలుషితాహారం తిని అస్వస్థతకు గురై నిమ్స్లో చికిత్స పొందుతున్న విద్యార్థిని శైలజను మరియు ఆమె కుటుంబ సభ్యులను పరామర్శించిన ఎమ్మెల్సీ @RaoKavitha pic.twitter.com/RAK0fxDPBq
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This is the first time that Kavitha took up a public issue after her release from Tihar prison where she was in remand for 153 days from 15 March for her alleged role in Delhi liquor policy scam.
On 21 November, she slammed the BJP-led NDA government after US prosecutors indicted Gautam Adani and others in a $256 million bribe case. She compared her incarceration with Adani escaping the long arm of the law.
“They propagate Akhand Bharat but deliver Selective Justice! Political opponents are arrested without evidence and put on trial for months, while Gautam Adani walks free despite repeated and grave allegations. What’s stopping the Union Govt from acting,” she asked on X.
After her release from jail on bail, she appeared before the people from the balcony of her house with her brother KT Rama Rao and others and later a picture of her father KCR hugging her came out on social media.
Kavitha then withdrew from public until 21 November when the news of Adani’s indictment broke.
She later made another post on X, this time it was about an issue close to her heart: Enhancement of reservations for the BCs.
A day later on 22 November, she said that Telangana Jagruthi would soon submit a comprehensive report to the BC Commission which has been tasked to finalise the reservations for the BCs, demanding an increase in quota for BCs in local bodies.
“The Telangana Congress govt must prove its sincerity by conducting a proper caste survey & addressing the needs of marginalized communities. Social Justice will only strengthen the core of the social fabric of the country. Jai Telangana,” she said.
Her criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Adani issue stirred the hopes of the party workers that she would lead them from the front. Her second statement that Telangana Jagruthi will meet the dedicated commission for finalising reservations for the BCs on the enhancement of the reservations for them, set their hopes soaring.
According to BRS sources, Kavitha has decided to resume her political life to expose both the Congress and the BJP.
“She will be active from now on. Her political journey after her release from prison began with her visit to NIMS. She is continuing it by making a representation to the BC Commission tomorrow. She will be taking up public causes from now on and fighting for what is due to the affected sections of the people,” one of her close confidants said.
Her last public event was when she led women to Indira Park in Hyderabad in protest against the state government deciding to implement horizontal reservation for women in jobs and education without roster points, which she said was against the spirit of the 33 percent reservations provided by the state for women.
The protectors demanded the repeal of GO No 3 which they said would deprive 33 percent reservation for women in recruitment of jobs in the state government.
She raised the issues of the need for enhancement of quota for the BCs and the spate of deaths occurring in SC and ST welfare hostels in the state before her arrest in March.
In February this year, she raised concern over the alleged suicide of an SC girl in Gurukul school at Imampet in Suryapet district. The same month, she took a dig at the state government for not translating its promises into action including enhancement of reservations for the BCs by conducting caste census.
The BRS has been maintaining that she was sent to jail on trumped-up charges and that she would come out clean.
Her father and former chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao has been saying that her arrest was outright illegal as she was set up in a case where there was none. He contended that states would have the freedom to frame its policies including excise, and wondered how Kavitha could be held guilty for that freedom.
He had said: “Mark my words, Kavitha would come out unscathed.”
(Edited by Majnu Babu).
