HYDERABAD: In an escalation of intra-party squabbling in Telangana, Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC and former MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha, daughter of social gathering supremo Okay Chandrasekhar Rao, Thursday accused senior netas inside her personal social gathering of trying to merge BRS with BJP – a transfer she says she vehemently opposed even whereas incarcerated within the Delhi liquor coverage rip-off case final 12 months.Interacting with media at her residence, Kavitha tore into the social gathering management, not directly concentrating on working president and her brother KT Rama Rao for failing to behave in opposition to ‘inside coverts,’ not responding to assaults from Congress, and remaining silent throughout a coordinated smear marketing campaign in opposition to her.“Once I was in jail, there was speak of merging BRS with BJP. I instructed my father, let social gathering stay impartial, even when it meant I stayed in jail for one more 12 months,” Kavitha mentioned. She added her actions have been aimed solely at strengthening the social gathering, and backstabbing was not in her DNA.‘Backstabbed from inside’Kavitha mentioned there was an inside conspiracy to sideline her and sever her reference to KCR. Referring to the leak of a personal letter she had written to her father earlier this month, she accused social gathering insiders of trying to discredit her and questioned why the management did not act in opposition to these accountable.“As an alternative of discovering those that leaked the letter, they unleashed paid social media trolls and media artistes, even from overseas, to malign me,” she quipped.The succession struggle inside BRS – between KTR and Kavitha – has come at a time when BRS is celebrating its silver jubilee and on the similar time grappling with a number of points, together with combating a authorized battle over defections by its MLAs who’ve joined Congress. Analysts say succession battles sometimes come up after the supremo is now not in image. Nonetheless, in BRS’s case, energy tussle has begun whereas KCR continues to be on the helm. Sources mentioned KCR’s family members inside BRS have already break up into camps, supporting both KTR or Kavitha.Letter bomb revealed riftThe rift between the duo turned obvious after Kavitha wrote a ‘suggestions letter’ to KCR concerning his speech on the BRS silver jubilee assembly in Warangal. Within the letter, she expressed dissatisfaction, significantly concerning KCR in his speech not concentrating on the BJP, not addressing the difficulty of BC reservations, lack of accessibility to BRS leaders, and different considerations. Celebration sources mentioned variations emerged greater than a 12 months in the past and intensified previously few months.