Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha, who has been making sharp criticism against the BRS which she had quit three months ago, on Friday exploded further, accusing former BRS ministers and MLAs of indulging in large-scale corruption, land grabbing, and misuse of power during the previous regime headed by her father KCR.
Kavitha also announced that she was sending legal notices to Kukatpally BRS MLA Madhavaram Krishna Rao, BJP leader Alleti Maheshwar Reddy, and T News channels for making what she described as “baseless and defamatory” allegations against her and her husband regarding encroachment of land.
Speaking to the media at the Jagruthi office, Kavitha demanded that the individuals and media organisations that levelled allegations tender unconditional apologies within a week.
“If they fail to apologise, I will proceed legally,” she warned, stating that neither she nor her family would tolerate the campaign of disinformation being carried out against them.
Kavitha further questioned why BJP leaders were coming to the defence of BRS leaders when her criticism was directed at the BRS and Congress.
“When I criticise BRS and Congress leaders, why does it trouble BJP leaders?” she asked.
She also alleged that a “mastermind” operating behind MLA Madhavaram Krishna Rao would soon be exposed and that she planned to file complaints with vigilance authorities and the CBI against this individual.
Kavitha alleged that extensive corruption, illegal land dealings, and irregularities took place throughout the 14-year tenure of the previous BRS government.
She declared that she would one day become Chief Minister and, if that happened, would order a comprehensive inquiry into all acts of wrongdoing committed during the BRS regime.
Asserting that she had revealed only a fraction of the alleged scandals, she said: “I have only tossed the coin. The test match is yet to begin.”
Kavitha claimed that she receives complaints almost every day regarding illegal activities of BRS MLAs and former ministers.
Recalling the Telangana movement, she alleged that several BRS leaders had threatened activists and extorted money during the agitation years.
“I stayed silent all these years, but I will not remain quiet anymore,” she said. She cautioned that any criticism against her would evoke a sharp response.
Kavitha refuted allegations of personal gain during the BRS rule, stating that she had never benefited financially from the government.
“During the movement, I pledged my jewellery to run Bathukamma programmes. Unlike you, I did not earn a single rupee through illegal means,” she stated, adding that attempts to shift the blame for BRS corruption onto her would not be tolerated.
She claimed that when she was serving as Nizamabad MP and staying in Delhi, several BRS leaders “looted the state like rats under KCR’s shadow.”
She criticised BRS leaders for continuing to attack her even after suspending her from the party.
“I will not spare the mastermind behind you,” she added.
In a significant allegation, Kavitha claimed that it was BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao who had signed the controversial land-use change Government Orders now being criticised by the party.
Calling BRS’s objection to the present government’s “HILT policy” hypocritical, she argued that it was BRS that first opened the window for land misappropriation, while the Congress government had now opened the “main doors” for exploitation.
Kavitha accused Madhavaram Krishna Rao’s son and KTR’s alleged benami, Pochampalli Srinivas Reddy, of building large villas and apartment complexes after converting industrial land into residential plots during the BRS tenure.
She demanded to know why the Congress government was ignoring the Pochampalli farmhouse case if it had no stake in the alleged corruption.
Kavitha levelled additional allegations of large-scale irregularities in the real-estate venture associated with Krishna Rao and his son.
She said that a 10-acre water body had been illegally reduced to 6 acres, with four acres encroached upon.
“Is that your ancestral property?” she asked, criticising that a protective wall was built around a community lake meant for public use.
She alleged that the leaders in question had created a “KGF-style real-estate empire” by encroaching upon public land and manipulating land-use permissions.
