Kavitha has her own following and heads Telangana Jagruthi, a well-structured organisation that played a key role in Telangana’s cultural renaissance during the statehood movement. She now wants clarity on her role in BRS.
Published May 27, 2025 | 6:21 PM ⚊ Updated May 27, 2025 | 9:11 PM
BRS MLC K Kavitha.
Synopsis: MLC K Kavitha demands that her father, BRS chief KCR, and party leaders assuage her and provide a clear roadmap of her position in the party.
Telangana MLC K Kavitha is steadfast on her intent — prominence in the BRS — even though her father and former chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao tried to assuage her ruffled feelings through two emissaries on Monday, 26 May.
According to reliable sources, Kavitha was very categorical in demanding a clear assurance from her father on her role in the party, for the leaders to take the first step to assuage her and provide a clear roadmap for her in BRS.
Sources said that BRS chief Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) spoke to her over the phone, but details of the conversation are not known. Kavitha is said to have held her ground, insisting that she be taken more seriously in the party and given the recognition she deserves.
Kavitha apparently did not mince words when emissaries Rajya Sabha Member D Damodar Rao and another leader Mohan Rao, who are related to KCR’s family, met her at different times and urged her to calm down and refrain from making inflammatory comments — such as claiming that KCR was surrounded by “demons”.
Sources suggested that the emissaries had two specific requests for Kavitha. Firstly, to issue a statement that she will not take the extreme step of leaving the party and charting her own course. Secondly, to meet KCR. Kavitha is said to have refused on both counts.
Kavitha is said to have conveyed her disappointment over her brother and BRS working President KT Rama Rao not reaching out to her after her letter was leaked. She, sources said, was also unhappy that KTR sought to downplay the content of her letter and equated her with any ordinary party worker.
BRS MLC and KCR’s daughter, Kavitha, is said to be disappointed about KTR not reaching out to her to listen to her pain points or who, according to her, were the ‘coverts’ in the party conspiring against her interests.
In short, the issue has now become a ‘who blinks first’ contest and Kavitha has refused to yield unless party leaders take the first step towards assuaging her and providing clarity.
The emissaries reportedly urged Kavitha to reconsider her public criticisms, warning that her outbursts could damage the party. They argued that unity would serve her long-term interests better than antagonising the leadership by labelling KCR’s inner circle as demons.
They cautioned her that her remarks, including allegations that “coverts” were wielding undue influence over her father, painted the party in a poor light, besides harming her own interests in the party.
However, she reportedly demanded clear assurances from the leadership, implying that she would not tolerate continued humiliation or playing second fiddle.
Her confidential letter to KCR after the party’s silver jubilee celebrations in Hanamkonda on 27 April — leaked last Thursday while she was in the US — sparked a political storm. The letter, unusually advisory in tone, critiqued his leadership, accusing him of soft-pedalling against the BJP and neglecting Telangana movement veterans.
Upon returning to Hyderabad on 23 May after attending her son Aditya’s graduation in the US, Kavitha expressed shock at the letter’s circulation on social media. While calling KCR “God-like,” she said that he was “surrounded by demons and coverts.”
KCR and KTR later huddled at the former’s farmhouse to assess the fallout. At a press conference on 24 May, KTR downplayed the letter but acknowledged that “Revanth Reddy’s moles” might be fueling discord — a cryptic reference that kicked up a tidal wave of speculation about the identities of these alleged “devils.”
Sources indicated that Kavitha’s concerns stem from a fear of being sidelined by KTR, as he may not encourage the emergence of an alternative power centre. As she has her own following and active grassroots engagement, she could emerge as a rival in the party, which may not be to his liking.
Kavitha is apparently being seen as a threat to KTR. She has her own following and heads Telangana Jagruthi, a well-structured organisation that played a key role in Telangana’s cultural renaissance during the statehood movement.
Sources said Kavitha has been feeling marginalised in the party, especially after her release from prison in the Delhi liquor policy case. The party leadership reportedly wanted her to lay low until the stigma of incarceration in the Delhi liquor scam fades, but she seems to have interpreted the advice as exclusionary and instead ramped up her activism — championing 33 percent women’s reservation, proportional Backward Class (BC) quotas, and campaigns like seeking the installation of Jyotiba Phule’s statue in the Assembly.
She united Telangana’s women under this banner, bolstering the separatist agitation. Like KTR, she too is fluent in Telugu, English, and Hindi — a skill she demonstrated effectively as Nizamabad MP (2014–2019), raising Telangana’s issues in Parliament with multilingual eloquence.
The question uppermost in the minds of the BRS circles now is whether Kavitha’s outbursts are mere pressure tactics for a greater role or a prelude to an exit.
Can she retain her influence if she leaves? A BRS insider speculated: “She’s securing her future by acting tough now. She knows that if she leaves the party, she would not get anywhere as he would be on her own without KCR’s support.”
(Edited by Muhammed Fazil.)
