Kavitha entry to MLC polls enthuses state TRS cadre
Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) cadre are wondering and speculating hard about the near-future role in the party of Kalvakuntla Kavitha, daughter of Chief Minister and party supremo K. Chandrashekar Rao, after her entry into active state politics.
Ms Kalvakuntla had chosen to keep a low profile and stay off active politics after her shocking defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. In fact, Ms Kavitha, who took an active role in building a strong base for the party in Nizamabad district, and ensured victory of the party in all Assembly segments in the December 2018 Assembly elections, had kept away for several months from all party matters.
After her defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, there was pressure on party top leadership to bring her into active politics in the district as TRS cadre were losing morale with growing influence of the BJP in the district. The cadre cited the results to the Nizamabad Municipal Corporation, wherein the BJP emerged the single largest party, even though the TRS managed to grab control of the council with support from its ally, the MIM, as proof of the growth of the saffron party.
In this backdrop, party leaders hoped the party supreme would nominate Ms. Kavitha to the Rajya Sabha, instead, former AP Assembly speaker K.R. Suresh Reddy, who hails from Nizamabad district, was sent to the upper house. Instead, Mr K Chandrashekar Rao has chosen his daughter for an MLC seat from Nizamabad local authorities constituency, term of years.
Sources in the party disclosed that Mr Rao fielded his daughter with a prolonged strategy as the constituency covers almost the entire district and she would have all protocol privileges to participate in all meetings, along with ministers and MPs. The position would help her build her career and a stronghold in the district.
After announcing name of Ms K. Kavitha, roads and buildings minister Vemula Prashanth Reddy told press that in which has a less than two
Nizamabad local authorities constituency, the TRS had 523 votes and Congress has 140, while BJP had only 83 votes. "The victory of Ms Kavitha is certain," he said.
Sources in the party said that the party had no option but to bring her back into politics to counter Nizamabad BJP MP D Arvind. She is also crucial for TRS to build better coordination in district party, in view of alleged lacking of coordination between ruling party MLAs and ministers from the district and the party workers.