Repeated attempts were made to merge BRS with BJP: MLC Kavitha

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), MLC and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s Daughter K. Kavitha. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

Disgruntled MLC of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (Brs) K. Kavitha alleged that there were repeated attempts to merge the party with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said that she would not accept anyone’s leadership other than BRS founder-president K. Chandrasekhar Rao.

In an informal chat with newspersons at her residence in Hyderabad on Thursday (May 29, 2025), she made it clear that KCR was the only leader in BRS and she had no need, whatsoever, to hold parleys with the Congress party since it was a sinking ship. She said that attempts were made to merge BRS with BJP even when she was in jail in a foisted case pertaining to the Delhi liquor policy. But she had opposed it saying she was ready to spend more time in the jail but not agree to the merger of BRS with the BJP.

Accusing some leaders within BRS, she said attempts were being made to distance her from the party supremo KCR. She said that it was those leaders who were behind her defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Seeking to know why the false news and propaganda against her was not condemned by the party, she said people know well whom it would benefit in the party if she was distanced from KCR. Indirectly referring to BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao’s remarks on coverts, she sought to know why there was a social media war against her, including from social media handles operated from overseas, when there was a need to expose the coverts in the party.

Asserting that BRS was her party, she hit out at the party leaders who she said were responsible for the leak of her letter on ‘feedback’ to KCR. She also faulted the party leaders for not responding to the notices issued to KCR by the Commission of Inquiry on Kaleshwaram and why a hue and cry was being raised when another leader in the party had received notices (in another case).

Ms. Kavitha said that she was willing to quit as MLC when she was arrested in the liquor policy case but it was KCR who had stopped her from doing so, so that the party could have some protocol in the district (Nizamabad).