BRS suspends KCR's daughter K Kavitha amid family feud

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BRS on Tuesday suspended K Kavitha, the daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, from the party a day after she accused her cousins of "tarnishing her father's image".

Kavitha was earlier removed as the honorary president of the Telangana Boggu Gani Karmika Sangham (TBGKS), a move that brought the deep cracks within the Bharat Rashtra Samithi out in the open.

The ouster comes after she blamed her cousin and former minister T Harish Rao for her father’s plight amid CBI probe into the Kaleshwaram project.

K Kavitha suspended from the BRS.

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"The party leadership is taking this matter seriously as the recent behavior and ongoing anti-party activities of party MLC K. Kavitha are damaging the BRS party. Party President K. Chandrasekhar Rao has taken a decision to suspend K. Kavitha from the party with immediate effect," the party said.

Kavitha had triggered a storm in the party on Monday after she accused her cousins and BRS leaders - T Harish Rao and J Santosh Kumar - of "amassing assets and having a tacit understanding" with chief minister Revanth Reddy to tarnish the image of her father K Chandrasekhar Rao.

Kavitha's attacks on Harish Rao and Santosh Kumar came after the Congress government decided to order a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram project, which was built during the BRS regime.

"We (BRS cadre) have to think why the taint of corruption came to KCR. Some who are close to KCR have benefited in many ways by making use of his name. KCR's name is getting defamed today because of their misdeeds. How can the party move ahead if the same persons are encouraged." "Did Harish Rao, who was irrigation minister for five years, not have a major role in this? That's why, KCR sidelined him (Harish Rao) in the second term (in power). Two, three persons are responsible for the taint on KCR in the whole episode of Kaleshwaram, While Harish Rao is one, former Rajya Sabha member (Santosh Kumar) is another," she claimed, also naming an industrialist.

While KCR focused on helping people, these people sought to increase their wealth through clandestine dealings with contractors, she alleged.

The internal differences within BRS came to the fore in May this year with Kavitha taking exception to the letter she wrote to Chandrasekhar Rao, also known as KCR, getting leaked.

The MLC claimed that she had tolerated the conspiracies orchestrated by Harish Rao and Santosh against her.

Telangana Congress president B Mahesh Kumar Goud claimed Kavitha's comments prove that corruption took place in the Kaleshwaram project.

(With inputs from PTI)