Kavitha began her statewide outreach programme from her political home turf, Nizamabad, where she had once rose to prominence and later faced defeat.
Published Oct 25, 2025 | 9:41 PM ⚊ Updated Oct 25, 2025 | 9:41 PM
Telangana Jagruthi president Kavitha launches Janam Bata in Nizamabad
Synopsis: Besides making oblique references to the circumstances that led to her exit from BRS, Kavitha trained her guns on the government, and criticised it for not aiding farmers and ignoring its promises.
Telangana Jagruti President Kavitha Kalvakuntla launched her statewide Janam Bata campaign from Nizamabad on Saturday, 25 October, demanding compensation for flood-hit farmers, and asking the BRS cadre if her defeat in the 2024 Lok Sabha election was part of a “conspiracy”.
Kavitha left her Banjara Hills office in the morning and began her statewide outreach programme from her political home turf, Nizamabad, from where she once rose to prominence and later faced defeat.
At the Jagruti office in Nizamabad, a defiant Kavitha addressed a packed gathering, questioning whether her loss in the 2024 polls was the result of “a conspiracy” and vowed to chart her own path.
Calling herself the “daughter and daughter-in-law of Nizamabad,” she sought the people’s blessings as she reconnected with her base. Later, she travelled to Yancha village in Navipet mandal, where she met flood-hit farmers and demanded a compensation of ₹50,000 per acre for them.
Kavitha questioned whether her defeat in Nizamabad was part of a larger plot.
Kavitha speaking at Yancha village during Janama Bata
“Is my defeat in Nizamabad a conspiracy or not? Nizamabad BRS activists should think,” she said, adding that despite her two decades of work for K Chandrashekar Rao and BRS, she was “sent out by a conspiracy”.
“They exposed the secrets of the house and embarrassed me,” Kavitha said, her voice turning personal. “Now I am searching for my path. As a child and daughter-in-law of this district, I have come for your blessings,” she told the crowd.
“This is my land. No matter where I am in the country, my heart beats for this land,” she continued.
Recalling her political journey, Kavitha said, “I joined the movement when I was 27 years old. For the last 20 years, I have worked for Telangana, for KCR, for TRS, and for BRS.”
She urged party workers to introspect rather than accuse. “Even if you ask little children what conspiracy had happened here, they will tell you,” she said. “No matter how many insults I have suffered, I have endured it for the love of BRS.”
Kavitha had said she would not use her father and BRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao’s images in her campaigns.
Turning her focus on governance, Kavitha accused the Congress-led dispensation of neglecting women, farmers, and the unemployed. “This government does not give a pension of ₹2,500. We should fight the government with clenched fists,” she exhorted.
Telangana Jagruthi’s two-wheeler rally between Hyderabad and Nizamabad.
Citing deteriorating conditions in public institutions, she added, “The situation in Nizamabad Government Hospital has become deplorable. Suicides, rats biting students, and rapes are happening in gurukuls. This Revanth Reddy government should be ashamed.”
“I have been in the shadow of KCR all these years. Now, I have been thrown out of that shadow. That is why I have came to you, hoping for your blessing. I believe that you will support me,” she said.
The former MP expressed anguish over the widespread loss of crop due to the flooded Godavari. She accused the Congress government of “sinning against farmers” through mismanagement and apathy.
“In the Godavari catchment area, Navipet mandal has suffered unprecedented damage. This is not what God did; this is the sin committed by the ministers in this government,” she alleged, adding that officials failed to act despite water stagnating in fields for 10 days.
Kavitha demanded ₹50,000 per acre as compensation and urged the district collector to personally inspect the damage. “Send the officials again and write the accounts honestly and ethically,” she insisted.
She also criticised the state’s failure to provide adequate urea supplies. “Farmers were made to stand in lines for urea. What would the government know about water if it did not know about urea?”
Blaming the local MLA Sudarshan Reddy and Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageshwar Rao for ignoring Nizamabad’s plight, Kavitha remarked, “Don’t forget, Tummala, that you are the Minister of Telangana. Everyone should think about the farmers.”
She also took the opportunity to target Revanth Reddy, questioning his unfulfilled promises. “For women ₹2,500, Tulam gold, where are those promises? Revanth Reddy’s mouth should stay shut,” she said, adding that gold prices went up after his announcement.
“I will not leave the problem of farmers,” she vowed. “If necessary, I will meet the collector tomorrow along with the farmers,” Kavitha added.
(Edited by Majnu Babu).
