IT WAS A SUNDAY morning in mid-December. All eyes were on an independent house in the plush Banjara Hills locality of Hyderabad. A Toyota Innova packed with Central Bureau of Investigation officials reached the house and subjected Kalvakuntla Kavitha to seven hours of questioning. After the CBI team left, Kavitha-daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, and member of legislative council from Nizamabad-came out, smiling and waving at her supporters. The CBI was probing her role in the Delhi liquor scam.
The next day, Kavitha was seen on stage issuing a clarion call to her followers: "Another situation has arisen. What we did in Telangana, we may have to replicate across the country. Get ready to travel to other states." Payback was palpable.
Kavitha was rousing the members of Telangana Jagruthi, a socio-cultural outfit floated by her in 2006, which soft-launched her into politics. It worked towards promoting the traditions, art and festivals of the Telangana region, before the state was born in 2014. One of its biggest successes was popularising Bathukamma-a traditional flower festival of Telangana-on a national scale and projecting it as an element of self-respect and assertion for the people of Telangana. Through activities in Jagruthi and its various verticals Kavitha's identity as a leader grew.
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