K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday rechristened his Telangana Rashtra Samiti as Bharat Rashtra Samiti as part of his efforts to expand the party's electoral footprint beyond Telangana. The TRS rank and file, who gathered outside the Telangana Bhavan, the TRS headquarters in Hyderabad, went ecstatic and burst crackers and distributed sweets soon after the announcement.
However, Rao's daughter K. Kavitha was conspicuous by her absence at the event, sparking speculations that all is not well in the state's first family. What added further fuel to the rumour mills was that her name was also missing from the TRS list of in-charges for the upcoming Munugode bypoll.
According to reports, Kavitha preferred to stay home celebrating Dussehra. She posted a picture of herself performing prayers on the occasion. "On this auspicious day of Dusherra, we performed Ayudha Pooja at home," Kavitha said in a tweet.
Several women leaders including ministers, MLAs and MPs like Sabitha Indira Reddy, Satyavathi Rathod, Padma Devender Reddy, Gongidi Sunitha and Deepika Yugender find themselves on the list of in-charges for the Munugode bypoll scheduled on November 3, reported ANI.
Rao's son and state IT and industries minister K.T. Rama Rao was present at the national party launch and he has also been named as one of party's in-charges for the bypoll.
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On Wednesday, the TRS adopted a unanimous resolution at its general body meeting, rechristening the party as BRS.
In the presence of JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy, Tamil Nadu's VCK leader Thol Thirumavalavan, Rao proposed the name change resolution and it was unanimously passed at the meeting.
Rao's announcement of the name change was welcomed by party functionaries with a big round of applause and amid chants of "KCR Zindabad and TRS Zindabad."
Significantly, the name change move comes against the backdrop of next year's Telangana Legislative Assembly election and the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
With PTI inputs