Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K. Kavitha was on Tuesday suspended from the party by her father and party president K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) for anti-party activities.
In a statement, BRS general secretaries T. Arvind Rao and Somu Bharat Kumar said that the party leadership took serious note of Kavitha’s recent actions, saying that her activities were harming the organisation. They said KCR decided to suspend her with immediate effect.
The decision followed a series of meetings KCR held with senior party leaders since Monday, after Kavitha took a dig at her cousin and former minister T. Harish Rao, and two former MPs. Hours after returning from the US, Kavitha launched a scathing attack on Harish Rao, another cousin and former MP J. Santosh Kumar, and former Rajya Sabha member Megha Krishna Reddy, accusing them of bringing disrepute to KCR.
Her remarks came shortly after Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy announced that alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram project would be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Kavitha alleged that those around KCR were responsible for tarnishing his reputation and prompting the CBI probe. “Does Harish Rao, who served as Irrigation Minister for five years, have no major role in this?” she said.
Kavitha claimed that while KCR was thinking about people’s welfare, those close to him colluded with big contractors for selfish gains. “Because of them, someone like Revanth Reddy has initiated a CBI probe against KCR.”
She reiterated that she had endured conspiracies within the party by Harish Rao and Santosh Kumar and had not reacted to their personal attacks. Kavitha said that as KCR’s daughter, she felt pained that he now faced a CBI inquiry.
The action against Kavitha came three months after an internal letter she wrote to KCR was leaked, in which she had blamed those around him for the leak.
Kavitha had also remarked that KCR was “a god surrounded by devils” and had accused a section of party leaders of being responsible for her defeat in the Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency in 2019.
In recent months, Kavitha has been organising protest programmes on various issues under the banner of Telangana Jagruthi, a cultural organisation she heads.
—IANS