Kavitha thanks judiciary but blames her family for ‘neglecting her’ in Delhi liquor policy case

Kavitha thanks the judiciary while criticizing her family's lack of support during the Delhi liquor policy case ordeal.

Telangana Jagruthi president Kalvakuntla Kavitha said she emerged as a ‘spotless pearl’ in the Delhi liquor policy case, but at the same time pointed fingers at her family for not supporting her enough when she was going through tough times. Ms. Kavitha was among the 23 people who were discharged in the case, by a Delhi court on Friday (February 27).

“The court made it clear that the very arguments in the case were false. We welcome the clean chit given to all those named in the case,” she said.

Reacting to a post on ‘X’ by her brother and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao following the verdict, Ms. Kavitha said that while he congratulated her, he also appeared to suggest that the liquor case was the reason for the defeat of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in the Assembly [2023] and Parliament [2024] elections.

Telangana Jagruthi president K. Kavitha jubilant after a Delhi court discharged her and 22 others in the Delhi liquor policy case, in Hyderabad on Friday. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL

A part of Mr. rama Rao’s post on X reads, “The AAP Govt led by Kejriwal was brought down in the name of the so-called liquor scam, and the political casualty of that narrative was the Bharat Rashtra Samithi in both the Assembly & Parliament elections.”

“Trying to put the burden of the party’s defeat around my neck will not be welcomed by the people,” she said. Ms. Kavitha argued that the BRS lost due to issues such as failure to provide jobs and double-bedroom houses, allotment of tickets to alleged exploiters, and what she described as arrogance in leadership.