Overview
- Congress candidate V Naveen Yadav won the Jubilee Hills by-election, defeating BRS nominee Maganti Sunitha by more than 24,000 votes.
- K. Kavitha posted “karma hits back” on X soon after the result, drawing fresh attention to divisions within the Bharat Rashtra Samithi.
- Speaking to reporters the next day, she said K. T. Rama Rao should leave social media to work on the ground and accused T. Harish Rao of cheating.
- Kavitha was suspended from BRS in September after alleging her cousins T. Harish Rao and J. Santosh Kumar tarnished K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s image over the Kaleshwaram issue.
- She resigned from BRS and the Legislative Council, is on a four-month padyatra with Telangana Jagruthi, and has ruled out returning to the party for now.