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NEW DELHI: K Kavitha on Saturday paid floral tributes to those who died during the 1969 Telangana statehood agitation at Amaraveerula Stupam in Gun Park, Hyderabad, ahead of the launch of her new political party.Nearly seven months after leaving the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, Kavitha, daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, is set to unveil a new regional political outfit focused on what she described as the “aspirations and unfinished agenda” of Telangana.Speaking to ANI on Friday, Kavitha said she and her supporters had been expelled from the BRS rather than leaving voluntarily.“The BRS party was made to fulfil the regional aspiration of Telangana, but they changed their name, work and the very soul of the party, which resulted in the breaking of their bond with the people. When a party gets distracted from its fundamental core issue, then it cannot survive. We need a regional party for the unfulfilled agenda and aspirations of Telangana, which will be our party,” she said.She also addressed her strained ties with the party led by her father, saying: “The BRS party, of which my father is the president, has expelled us. We haven’t left them, neither the family nor the party. We have been expelled. I don’t want to go into that. But I am a daughter of Telangana. I have the blood of Telangana, the grit of it. We are very stubborn, very committed to our goal. We have spent 20 years of our lives in the Telangana agitation. To develop Telangana, to fulfil its aspirations, whether we have our old party or not, whether our family is with us or not, I believe the people of Telangana are my family. The fragrance of Telangana’s soil will drive us.”Kavitha’s departure from BRS followed months of internal conflict. She was suspended from the party in September 2025 over alleged anti-party activities after publicly criticising senior leaders T Harish Rao and J Santosh Rao.After the suspension, she accused Harish Rao and Santosh Rao of “planning to destroy our family and party” in coordination with Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy. She later resigned as an MLC.Kavitha formally exited BRS in January 2026 and subsequently founded Telangana Jagruthi, which has now become the platform for her return to frontline politics.
