US EditionKCR suspends daughter Kavitha from BRS
K. Kavitha faces suspension for accusing senior BRS leaders of corruption linked to the Kaleshwaram project, intensifying internal party conflict and public protests.
- On Tuesday, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi suspended K. Kavitha, BRS MLC and daughter of K. Chandrashekar Rao, for `anti-party activities` damaging the party, a decision by party president KCR.
- On Monday, K. Kavitha accused cousins T. Harish Rao and J. Santosh Kumar of enriching themselves and tarnishing KCR's reputation linked to the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project.
- In a terse press release, a notice signed by Soma Bharat Kumar and T. Ravinder Rao said Kavitha’s `anti-party activities` risked damaging BRS, prompting her suspension by the Party Disciplinary Committee.
- The move sparked protests as BRS workers burned Kavitha’s posters and an effigy of Harish Rao, intensifying turmoil in Telangana politics and pleasing Congress supporters amid the infighting.
- Amid a government-ordered CBI probe into Kaleshwaram, the Telangana High Court gave interim relief restraining action until October 7 as the state moves to transfer the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
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A video (here, here, here, here) of a building on fire is being shared on social media, claiming that ‘BRS workers set fire to Telangana Bhavan to celebrate Kalvakuntla Kavitha’s suspension from the party. In this video, we can see a person pushing a firecracker canister out of the gate opposite the building with a stick. Also, we can hear a police officer saying on a walkie talkie, ‘Sir, there was a little fire near TRS Bhavan, sir…’. This vide…
BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao suspends daughter Kavitha over anti-party activities
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