The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president K Chandrashekhar Rao’s rebellious daughter K Kavitha, who resigned from the primary membership of the party and her MLC seat last week, is getting the taste of her own medicine.
Revolt is brewing within ‘Telangana Jagruthi’, the cultural outfit she heads, with some of her senior colleagues questioning her relevance in the organisation after having severed links with the party.
The vice-president of Telangana Jagruthi, M Rajeev Sagar and other office-bearers, including Rajaram Yadav and Matam Bikshapathi claimed that the organisation was an affiliated wing of the BRS and they were all loyal to KCR, not Kavitha.
“Since Kavitha is out of the BRS, she can no more claim right over Telangana Jagruthi. It belongs to us,” Sagar told reporters.
He alleged that Kavitha had left the Telangana Jagruthi workers in a state of uncertainty after resigning from the BRS, and questioned under whose authority she took such decisions. He insisted that they played an equally important role as Kavitha in building Telangana Jagruthi.
“Telangana Jagruthi belongs to us and she has no right over the organisation. As an official organisation of the BRS, we shall act only on the directions of KCR,” Sagar said.
He further said the real Telangana Jagruthi workers had distanced themselves from Kavitha ever since she began making critical comments against the BRS leadership. He alleged that many Jagruthi leaders and activists were now left in a vulnerable position.
Sagar alleged that Kavitha had enjoyed good positions in the party – once as a Lok Sabha member and twice as an MLC. “She never bothered about securing any positions for the Telangana Jagruthi activists. She was also not bothered about doing social justice in Telangana Jagruthi,” he said.
However, Kavitha’s followers in the organisation stood by her and condemned the comments made by Sagar and others against her. “There is no Telangana Jagruthi without Kavitha. It was because of her, leaders like Rajeev Sagar and Bikshapathi were appointed as corporation chairpersons during the BRS regime,” said Telangana Jagruthi youth wing leader D Lingam.
Kavitha was suspended by the party after she made startling allegations of corruption against her cousins and senior party functionaries—former minister T Harish Rao and former Rajya Sabha member Santosh Rao. Both the leaders are close confidants of KCR and constitute his inner circle, whom Kavitha dubbed as a ‘ring of devils’.
She had also alleged that they were hand-in-glove with the Congress Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy in defaming KCR and ordering a CBI probe against him under trumped-up charges in the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project case.
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