For someone hailing from a political family who took to part-time politics initially life has come full circle for Kalvakuntla Kavitha within a span of just 10 years. From getting elected to Parliament with a handsome majority on her debut attempt to losing the next election and then getting elected as an MLC and ending up in Tihar jail on the charges of an economic offence, she has seen it all.
Central government agencies that investigate the controversial Delhi liquor policy case accuse her of having links to a ‘south lobby’ that made unlawful gains from the Delhi government’s liquor policy. Ms. Kavitha, the daughter of former Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), however, remains unperturbed.
A software engineer by profession, Ms. Kavitha worked for a few years in the U.S. before returning to the country in 2006 with plans to enter politics. She joined the movement of statehood for Telangana, spearheaded by KCR, the founder of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS, now known as Bharat Rashtra Samithi, or BRS).
