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Will \u2018Akka\u2019 K Kavitha be the next \u2018Amma\u2019 in southern politics? It has been exactly a month since Kavitha was expelled from her party BRS, founded by her father and former chief minister KCR. However, she is not sitting pretty. At the sprawling Telangana Jagruti office in Hyderabad, the social work outfit started by Kavitha around the same time as the Telangana agitation began, the leader is mobbed by supporters\u2014mostly women\u2014who call her Akka (sister).<\/p>\n

In her office, small water bottles carry her pictures. What\u2019s missing, though, is the picture of her brother and the heir apparent of the BRS, KTR. <\/p>\n

With a sense of hurt, Kavitha says KTR \u201cdidn\u2019t defend me when a BRS MLA attacked me and used filthy language. He could have just called me and asked me for my version”. <\/p>\n

Kavitha today stands at a crossroads as the two pictures in her room depict. Behind her is the picture of her father and BRS chief KCR. Next to her hangs an image of goddess Bathukamma, to whom a festival is dedicated in Telangana and parts of parts of Andhra Pradesh. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am in politics because of my father. I have been an MP, an MLC, and people know me,” she says. But KCR and Kavitha have not spoken in a month. The only family member she is in touch with is her mother. But Kavitha knows a harsh truth. \u201cMy mother supports me and loves me. But in our country, everyone believes it\u2019s the job of the men or sons to lead.” <\/p>\n

History is replete with several examples where women who managed to chart their own course were those who defied patriarchy or misogyny. Examples of Mamata Banerjee, J Jayalalithaa, Mayawati, and Sonia Gandhi shine. But then there are many who have had to contend with being the second fiddle or take a step back\u2014like Priyanka Vadra or Mumtaz Patel. <\/p>\n

But Kavitha does not want to be written off so soon.<\/p>\n

Initially, the party\u2019s plan was clear. While KTR would manage the state affairs, Kavitha was the woman and national interface of the party\u2014a role she was happy in. But then things changed. As the BRS lost elections, a tussle began in the party. KTR and his supporters made it very clear that Kavitha\u2019s wings would have to be clipped and, therefore, it came as no surprise when she was eventually suspended from the party overnight.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only fair that one is given a chance to explain. I was not given that chance. There were people who wanted me out and here I am,” Kavitha says.<\/p>\n

After Jayalalithaa, the South is yet to see the rise of a strong woman politician who takes centre stage. Telangana is one state where women outnumber men. As per latest statistics, there are 1000.2 women voters for every 1,000 men. It\u2019s these women who helped the Congress come to power in the state and why the Revanth Reddy government continues to pamper them\u2014politically, economically and socially empowering them. This is exactly how Kavitha hopes to take revenge from and defeat both her father as well as her brother by ensuring that women voters walk away\u2014both from the Congress and the BRS\u2014towards her. <\/p>\n

Though Kavitha is yet to officially announce her party, she is travelling across the state as well as meeting politicians across the country. At one such recent rally, she was seen sharing stage with INLD leader Abhay Singh Chautala in Haryana\u2019s Rohtak. Like the Bathukamma festival, which worships many varieties of flowers, Kavitha thinks it\u2019s time for different political parties to come together. Interestingly, her father KCR had tried to engineer a third front of non-BJP, non-Congress parties. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think this is the only solution. We can\u2019t go with Congress and we need other parties to come together to form alternatives,” she says.<\/p>\n

Despite the bitter fallout with her father, for Kavitha, her two political inspirations are KCR and Margaret Thatcher. She knows that she cannot afford to win over people by attacking her father. Also, just like Thatcher, Kavitha is inspired by the strong women of Indian politics such as Mamata Banerjee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will have to fight against three men, all who are formidable\u2014the chief minister, my father and the prime minister.” So, is she eyeing the chief minister\u2019s post in future? \u201cWhy not,” Kavitha asks.<\/p>\n

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Pallavi Ghosh has covered politics and Parliament for 15 years, and has reported extensively on Congress, UPA-I and UPA-II, and has now included the Finance Ministry and Niti Aayog in her reportage. She has als…Read More<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Pallavi Ghosh has covered politics and Parliament for 15 years, and has reported extensively on Congress, UPA-I and UPA-II, and has now included the Finance Ministry and Niti Aayog in her reportage. She has als… Read More<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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