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Kavitha attacks brother KTR in BRS turf war | India News
HYDERABAD: In an escalation of intra-party squabbling in Telangana, Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC and former MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha, daughter of social gathering supremo Ok Chandrasekhar Rao, Thursday accused senior netas inside her personal social gathering of trying to merge BRS with BJP – a transfer she says she vehemently opposed even whereas incarcerated in the Delhi liquor coverage rip-off case final yr.Interacting with media at her residence, Kavitha tore into the social gathering management, not directly focusing on working president and her brother KT Rama Rao for failing to behave towards ‘inside coverts,’ not responding to attacks from Congress, and remaining silent throughout a coordinated smear marketing campaign towards her.“When I was in jail, there was talk of merging BRS with BJP. I told my father, let party remain independent, even if it meant I stayed in jail for another year,” Kavitha stated. She added her actions had been aimed solely at strengthening the social gathering, and backstabbing was not in her DNA.‘Backstabbed from inside’Kavitha stated there was an inside conspiracy to sideline her and sever her reference to KCR. Referring to the leak of a non-public letter she had written to her father earlier this month, she accused social gathering insiders of trying to discredit her and questioned why the management did not act towards these accountable.“Instead of finding those who leaked the letter, they unleashed paid social media trolls and media artistes, even from abroad, to malign me,” she quipped.The succession war inside BRS – between KTR and Kavitha – has come at a time when BRS is celebrating its silver jubilee and on the identical time grappling with a number of points, together with combating a authorized battle over defections by its MLAs who’ve joined Congress. Analysts say succession battles sometimes come up after the supremo is now not in image. However, in BRS’s case, energy tussle has begun whereas KCR continues to be on the helm. Sources stated KCR’s family members inside BRS have already break up into camps, supporting both KTR or Kavitha.Letter bomb revealed riftThe rift between the duo turned obvious after Kavitha wrote a ‘suggestions letter’ to KCR relating to his speech on the BRS silver jubilee assembly in Warangal. In the letter, she expressed dissatisfaction, notably relating to KCR in his speech not focusing on the BJP, not addressing the difficulty of BC reservations, lack of accessibility to BRS leaders, and different considerations. Party sources stated variations emerged greater than a yr in the past and intensified in the previous few months.
