I Leave It To Her Wisdom, My Life An Open Book: Harish On Kavitha's Allegations Against Him
BRS MLA accuses CM Revanth Reddy of weakening systems built under KCR, urges support for farmers amid urea shortage.
Hyderabad: Former minister and senior BRS leader T. Harish Rao refused to be drawn into any controversy over the recent allegations against him by K. Kavitha, his cousin who quit the party a few days ago, saying he would leave what she said to her wisdom and that he did not know the reasons for her outbursts.
Without naming Kavitha, Harish Rao, who returned to the city in the early hours on Sunday from London, told reporters at the RGI Airport: “When the state is in the grip of serious problems including severe shortages of urea fertiliser, there should be no place for such cheap politics.”
Refusing to elaborate on Kavitha’s allegations against him of corruption and underming the BRS from within, Harish Rao said “my life has been an open book for the past 25 years since the beginning of the movement for Telangana. Of late allegations that were made against me by leaders in other parties and these were repeated again.”
Without naming Kavitha, Harish Rao said “I do not know why was this done, and for whose benefit this was done. I would like to leave the allegations against me to this person’s wisdom.”
Harish Rao later went to BRS president and former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s farmhouse in Erravalli in Siddipet district, where is learnt to have discussed Kavitha’s outburst, and related developments with Chandrashekar Rao, and with BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao.
Present at the farmhouse were two other BRS leaders, former MP and Chandrashekar Rao’s confidant J. Santosh Kumar, and MLC Pochampally Srinivas Reddy. Kavitha had named them as being involved in corruption during the BRS regime.
The BRS top leadership has so far not commented on Kavitha’s allegations or her quitting the party and her Legislative Council seat. While some party leaders including former ministers were deployed by the BRS to defend Harish Rao, even that has not been very vociferous and has been subdued.
There was no official word on what transpired at Saturday’s meeting at Chandrashekar Rao’s farmhouse, but it was learnt that the party would not make a big issue of Kavitha and her leaving the party, or her allegations against Harish Rao and has adopted a watch-and-wait mode for now.