BRS suspends KCR's daughter K Kavitha over ‘anti-party activities’
BRS suspends KCR's daughter K Kavitha over ‘anti-party activities’
M.U.H
02/09/202525
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has suspended member of legislative council (MLC) Kalvakuntla Kavitha, daughter of party president and former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, from the organisation on disciplinary grounds, the party said in a statement on Tuesday.
BRS general secretary in-charge of disciplinary affairs, Soma Bharat Kumar, and general secretary (organisation) T Ravinder Rao said KCR had decided to sack Kavitha from the party with immediate effect.
“The BRS high command has taken a serious view of the behaviour and attitude of MLC Kavitha and her anti-party activities in recent days. The party leadership felt that her activities and statements are causing immediate damage to the party,” the statement said.
The suspension comes hours after Kavitha on Monday made serious allegations against her cousins – former irrigation minister T Harish Rao and former MP J Santosh Rao – that they had amassed huge assets while making her father a scapegoat in the alleged scam in the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project.
Kavitha said there was no meaning in the existence of the BRS when the party president was made an accused in the case of alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram project, which the Central Bureau of Investigation is currently probing.
“When KCR is forced to face a CBI inquiry, does it even matter whether the BRS survives or not?” she asked.
Kavitha directly accused Harish Rao and Santosh of being responsible for irregularities, if any, in the construction of Kaleshwaram irrigation project. “It was Harish Rao and Santosh Rao who handled key aspects of the project. They accumulated huge assets blinding KCR. They are the anacondas of corruption,” she alleged.
Kavitha had been facing the heat in the party ever since she was arrested by the CBI and jailed for nearly six months in the alleged Delhi liquor policy scam case from March 16 to August 24, 2024. She returned to active politics and took up the cause of the OBCs independently, much to the chagrin of the party leadership.
