Kalvakuntla Kavitha, the daughter of Telangana Rashtra Samithi President and Prime Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, returned to active politics on Monday by winning the by-elections to the state legislative council with an overwhelming majority. He had been in political hibernation after losing the Nizamabad parliamentary elections in May 2019.
Kavitha is now being included in her father’s cabinet.
“There is a good chance that she will become a minister in the KCR cabinet. We all look forward to seeing you as a minister soon, ”said TRS Senior Leader and Legislator Bodhan Mohd Shakeel.
The former MP swept the elections for the MLC seat in the Nizamabad constituency of local authorities with a margin of 672 votes, obtaining more than 88 percent of the vote. The vote was held on December 9 and the count took place on Monday.
Of the 823 votes obtained in the electoral district, Kavitha obtained 728 votes. In the first round, he got 531 out of 600 votes and got another 197 votes in the second round.
His closest candidate, Lakshmi Narayana from the Bharatiya Janata Party, got only 56 votes, while Subhash Reddy from Congress was only able to get 29 votes and another 10 votes were declared invalid. Both Congress and the BJP candidates lost their deposits.
The by-elections of the MLC seat from the Nizamabad constituency of local bodies were necessary following the disqualification of MLC R Bhoopathi Reddy from TRS from Congress last December.
The election that was to be held on April 7 this year was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The vote was recently approved by the Election Commission of India.
Kavitha thanked the representatives of the local organizations for their landslide victory. He also expressed his gratitude to Minister V Prashant Reddy, the MLAs, MPs and MLCs who had worked tirelessly for his great victory.
The daughter of the prime minister of Telangana, who played an important role in the Telangana movement through her cultural wing Telangana Jagruti, won the first electoral battle in 2014 when she was elected to the Lok Sabha of the Nizamabad parliamentary constituency.
However, Kavitha lost the 2019 parliamentary elections to Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Dharmapuri Arvind by a margin of more than 70,000 votes.
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