Bharat Rashtra samithi mlc kavitha kalvakuntla. File | Photo Credit: Siddhant Thakur
HYDERABAD
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K. Kavitha has admitted that it was she who had addressed a letter to party president and her father K. Chandrasekhar Rao two weeks back and added: “I had done the same in the past too to express my opinion.”
The letter getting into public domain itself was a conspiracy and there were some covert elements and ‘demons around God KCR’ and they were harming the future of the party, she said speaking to mediapersons at the Shamshabad airport on her return from the US. She reiterated that it would be better if the party rectifies some minor faults within, adding “whatever I had expressed in the letter was people’s opinion.”
Further, she suggested the party leadership send out the covert elements for the longevity of the party as people of Telangana believed that it was only under the leadership of KCR that the State could progress. She hinted at a former MP of the party and another key leader, currently calling the shots in the party, as being responsible for the leak of her letter.
Earlier, her letter, which was leaked to the media on Thursday, created flutter among the political circles exposing the chinks in the armour of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). The timing holds significance as the letter was out a day before Ms. Kavitha’s return to Hyderabad from the USA on Friday. She went abroad to attend her elder son’s graduation ceremony.
The six-page handwritten letter, scribbled both in Telugu and English, has some interesting points raised by Ms. Kavitha. Referring to Mr. Rao’s speech at the Warangal (Elkathurthy) public meeting held on April 27 to celebrate the party’s 25th foundation day, she remarked that the party president had spared only two minutes to criticise/target Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
She felt that the party president could have been more critical about the BJP and could have spoken strongly. Such an apparent soft speech had given rise to the speculation that BRS could go for an alliance with BJP in future.
Since the Congress had lost faith of the people at the grass-roots level, “our cadre” (BRS) were of the view that BJP could become “an alternative”. In her letter, she suggested to her father that the plenary of the party could be held for one to two days even now so that the party ranks could vent their opinion.
She brought to the party chief’s notice that most of the MLAS, ZP chairpersons, ZPTC level leaders felt access to the party president was selective. Ms. Kavitha stated that she was also disappointed in the party chief not speaking in Urdu, on Waqf Act.
Published – May 23, 2025 09:46 PM is
