Harish Rao meets KCR after Kavitha’s exit from BRS

BRS leader and former irrigation minister T Harish Rao today met party supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao at the latter’s farmhouse at Erravalli.

This was their first meeting after K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter, Kalvakuntla Kavitha, publicly accused her cousin and senior BRS leader Harish Rao of large-scale corruption, particularly in the Kaleshwaram project.

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She also alleged that he has a tacit deal with chief minister A Revanth Reddy to destroy the BRS and her family.

After returning from his visit to the UK today, Harish Rao downplayed the allegations made against him by Kavitha.

“My 25-year-long political journey is like an open book before the Telangana people. She repeated the same comments that some political parties have been making against me for some time now. Why did she make those allegations? I leave it to her wisdom,” he said. He also iterated his loyalty towards KCR, pointing out that the public knew about his role in Telangana’s development in the past two and a half decades.

He accused chief minister Revanth Reddy of taking apart every system put in place by the previous BRS government under K Chandrasekhar Rao. He criticized the government for providing no relief to flood-hit people or to farmers reeling under the urea shortage.

Later on, he reached Gajwel and met former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao at his farmhouse.

Harish Rao is one of the most popular BRS leaders who won his constituency, Siddipet, several times with record margins and also manages KCR’s constituency, Gajwel. He has been the trusted aide of his uncle from the days of Telangana statehood struggle, even before KCR’s son and daughter had joined him in politics.

He has held important portfolios, including irrigation in the first BRS government and finance and health in the second one.

Kavitha, who fell out with the family, had initially trained her guns at her brother and party working president KT Rama Rao, but her suspension from the party was prompted by her allegations against her cousins, T Harish Rao and J Santosh, whom she referred to as “anacondas of corruption.”