Telangana Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar said Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K Kavitha’s letter to her father and BRS chief K. Chandrashekhar Rao echoed what the Congress has been saying about the alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the BRS.
“The BRS denied vehemently whenever we raised the unholy alliance. Now, KCR’s daughter Kavitha is asking the same question. Will they call this too politics?” he asked at a press conference in Karimnagar on Friday (May 23, 2025). He reiterated the Congress belief that the BRS has remained soft on the BJP even when it was in power claiming it was a political strategy.
Mr. Prabhakar claimed that the letter also brought to light alleged backdoor deals between BRS and BJP, including mutual support in local body elections and tacit approval of BJP leadership changes. He alleged that Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay was replaced by Kishan Reddy as BJP state president before the 2023 Assembly elections on the advice of KCR.
The Minister also took a dig at BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao, calling his recent remarks against Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy as a ‘BJP-scripted distraction.’ The letter of Ms. Kavitha to her father further strengthens the Congress party’s belief on this, he said adding that the ‘open dissent’ indicated the internal collapse of BRS.
Mr. Prabhakar further argued that the BRS party appears to have completely sidelined democratic values. When the daughter of the party president said KCR was not accessible to grassroots workers, how can we expect internal democracy to thrive?, he asked.
It was for KTR and senior leader T. Harish Rao to address the serious concerns raised in Ms. Kavitha’s letter with regard to BJP’s alliance with BRS. They can’t escape from this . “They can’t maintain mysterious silence on BJP despite its betrayals to Telangana,” he said.
Mr. Prabhakar termed the Enforcement Directorate’s investigation into the National Herald as “political harassment.”
Published – May 23, 2025 05:43 pm IST
