Hyderabad: As the intra -party squabbing grows in Telangana, Bharat President Samithi MLC and former MP Kalwakantla Kavitha, the daughter of the party’s supremo K Chandrashekhar Rao, on Thursday, accused the senior leader of trying to merge with the BJP within her party, which also says that she also works.Speaking with the media at his residence, Kavitha entered under the party’s leadership, indirectly to the executive president and his brother Katie Ram Rao to ‘fail to work against the internal cover,’ not to respond to attacks from the Congress and remain silent during a coordinated smear campaign against him.“When I was in jail, there was talk of merging the BRS with the BJP. I told my father, let the party be independent, even though it meant that I remained in jail for another year.” He said that the purpose of his works was only to strengthen the party, and backstabing was not in his DNA.‘Backstabde’ from withinKavita said that she had an internal conspiracy to ignore her and end her relationship with KCR. Referring to the leakage of a private letter to his father earlier this month, he accused the inner sources of the party of trying to discredit him and questioned why the leadership failed to work against them.He said, “Instead of finding the leaks of the letter, he paid to social media trolls and media artists, even from abroad, to make me malfunction,” he quipped.The succession war within the BRS – between KTR and Kavitha – has come at a time when BRS is celebrating its silver jubilee as well as struggling with several issues, including their MLAs who join Congress fighting a legal battle on faults. Analysts say that the battle of succession usually arises after the supremo. However, in the case of BRS, the power has begun, while KCR is still on the hull. Sources said that KCR relatives within BRS have already divided into camps, either supporting KTR or Kavitha.Reveal of letter bomb crackKavitha became a clear rift between the pair after KV wrote a ‘feedback letter’ about his speech at the BRS Silver Jubilee meeting at Warangal. In the letter, he expressed dissatisfaction, especially in his speech, not targeting the BJP about KCR, does not address the issue of BC reservation, lack of access to BRS leaders, and other concerns. Party sources said that differences emerged more than a year ago and intensified in the last few months.
