As the Jubilee Hills assembly constituency is heading for a by-election following the death of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath due to illness, there is a buzz in Telangana politics that Telangana Jagruthi president Kalvakuntla Kavitha, who resigned from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi following her suspension from the party, may contest this seat.
Though there is no clarity from her or her followers, there is a speculation is that Kavitha might test her fortunes by going aggressively in the by-elections to the Jubilee Hills assembly seat.
“She might not win the seat, but she would definitely cause a dent in the prospects of the BRS,” an analyst said.
For now, Kavitha might contest the elections as an independent, but there is a talk that she might float a new political party sooner or later.
“She might convert her cultural outfit Telangana Jagruti itself into a political party or register a new political party in the name of Telangana Bahujana Rashtra Samithi (TBRS), and even might even revive the BRS’s old name – Telangana Rashtra Samithi,” sources said.
Analysts say the exit of Kavitha from the BRS would not have come at a worse time for KCR.
Having lost the assembly and Lok Sabha elections, KCR has confined himself to his farmhouse, leaving his son K T Rama Rao and nephew Harish Rao to take on the ruling Congress.
The party is already facing a big crisis following an increasing attack from the Congress, including the latest government move to order a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram irrigation project.
Under these circumstances, Kavitha’s sacking from the BRS has created further trouble for the party.
Her public outburst against Harish, whom she accused of playing a major role in Kaleshwaram and dragging her father into a CBI probe indirectly endorsed the Congress's allegations.
The danger for BRS is that she could dent its prospects. The more the BRS is weakened, the stronger will be the other opposition party, the BJP — and therein lies the real fallout, sources said.
