‘BRS Govt did some good work, but thin line between welfare and development’: Kavitha

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Telangana Jagruthi president   K. Kavitha

Telangana Jagruthi president K. Kavitha | Photo Credit: G. Ramakrishna

Former Lok Sabha MP K. Kavitha is each acceptable to contention the adjacent Assembly polls successful Telangana owed successful 2028, declaring that “the remainder is simply a technicality” erstwhile asked astir the quality of her projected caller governmental outfit. 

Currently connected a yatra crossed each 33 districts of Telangana, nether the aegis of a non-political organisation, Telangana Jagruti, founded by her during the question for a abstracted State, she told The Hindu, “I bash privation to contention the adjacent assembly polls, the remainder (party name, nature) of it is each technicality.”

She said that she had nary interaction with household members, including her father, erstwhile Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhara Rao, since her suspension. “Neither person I reached out, nor has anyone reached retired to me,” she said, adding that she had been punished for “speaking the truth” astir the “vested interests” that she said led to Mr. Rao’s sanction appearing successful a CBI lawsuit related to graft. 

“Why is KCR’s sanction successful CBI today? It is due to the fact that of a fewer radical with vested interests. I cognize my father, he’s fundamentally not the benignant of idiosyncratic who would place specified mistakes. I pointed retired immoderate of these mistakes, a crushed possibly wherefore 1 of my cousins was not reappointed arsenic a curate successful the 2nd word of our government. So, helium (KCR) did effort to power them, but the mishaps are immense and idiosyncratic needs to beryllium held accountable. That is what I was flagging,” she said. 

Alleges misogyny

She besides admits that a just spot of misogyny was down the enactment taken against her by her party.

“In fact, aft I had been suspended, the Bharatha Rashtra Samiti (BRS) societal media accounts flooded my timelines with demands that I spell by my joined sanction of Devanpalli alternatively than my maiden sanction of Kalvakuntala. This was ne'er an contented successful each the years that I was progressive successful the Telangana question oregon the years I was successful the party, erstwhile I was arrested aggregate times, but present conscionable due to the fact that I basal up for myself, the full troll service is aft me. Give maine a break, this is the 21st century. I americium astir apt the lone girl suspended by her begetter from a governmental party,” she said.

She, however, struck an optimistic note, stating that each these issues spell distant if determination is acceptance among the people, similar successful the lawsuit of erstwhile Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa oregon West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee. 

Focus of caller outfit

As for the governmental programme for her caller outfit, she said that portion her father’s Government was bully astatine payment measures similar the Raithu Bharose and others, people’s basal needs were not met, which would beryllium her focus: “drinking water, roads, employment.”

“Don’t get maine wrong. The BRS Government has done immoderate bully things. But determination is simply a precise bladed enactment betwixt payment and development. Step retired of Hyderabad and the disparity is great,” she said. 

She has besides apologised, during the yatra, for immoderate of the shortcomings of the BRS Government. “Like successful the lawsuit of the martyrs for the Telangana cause, we person documented that 1200 radical mislaid their lives during the movement; determination should person been much effort enactment successful acknowledging their sacrifices, we got to 540 specified families,” she said. 

“KCR has done a batch of bully things, which was a benignant of a alleviation to people. That is wherefore a 2nd clip besides the authorities came with a immense fig of seats. But what happened after? People dilatory started realising, we are not being represented oregon empowered. My main docket is to get to societal justness and equity, oregon astatine slightest acceptable the people for it. We could person done things differently, but again, we resorted to being a regular governmental party,” she said. 

Published - December 18, 2025 03:18 p.m. IST

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