Kamal Ghorui
HYDERABAD: Former BRS leader and daughter of ex-Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, K Kavitha on Saturday launched a new political outfit named Telangana Rashtra Sena (TRS) in Hyderabad, nearly seven months after parting ways with the party.At a launch event in Hyderabad, Kavitha announced that her party would also use the abbreviation TRS — a name that carries political symbolism in Telangana. Her father had originally founded the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), which was later renamed Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).Earlier in the day, she paid floral tributes at the Amaraveerula Stupam in Gun Park to those who died during the 1969 Telangana statehood agitation.On Friday, speaking to ANI, Kavitha outlined the rationale behind forming a new political force.“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 said her exit from the BRS was not voluntary.“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 the BRS turned acrimonious after she was suspended in September 2025 for alleged “anti-party activities”. Her suspension followed internal rifts and her public criticism of senior leaders T Harish Rao and J Santosh Rao.Following her suspension, she accused them of “planning to destroy our family and party” in alleged connivance with Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy. She later resigned as an MLC and launched the Telangana Jagruthi NGO, which she now says will serve as the base for her renewed political journey.
