Former Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader K Kavitha on Monday announced that her outfit Telangana Jagruthi will emerge as a political party and contest the next Assembly elections in the state, The Hindu reported.
Assembly elections in the state is likely to be held either in 2028 or 2029. Telangana Jagruthi is a non-profit cultural and social organisation founded by Kavitha in 2006, which initially worked to promote Telangana’s identity during the statehood movement.
Kavitha’s announcement came four months after she resigned from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi and stepped down as a member of the Telangana Legislative Council on September 3, a day after she was suspended by by her father and party chief K Chandrashekar Rao for alleged anti-party activities.
The action had also come a day after she accused her cousins, former minister T Harish Rao and ex-MP J Santosh Rao, of amassing assets while making K Chandrashekar Rao a “scapegoat” in the alleged Kaleshwaram project scam.
Her resignation as a MLC, however, was not accepted by Council Chairperson Gutha Sukhender Reddy.
On Monday, Kavitha said that she intends to form a political party in the state that “will create a lot of space for people who want to work in democratic front, forum”, The Hindu reported.
“The BRS [Bharat Rashtra Samithi] party, which we thought was our party, Telangana people’s party,…
Source: Ex-BRS leader K Kavitha says she will form political party, contest next Telangana election
