While acknowledging that all her family members are in politics, Kavitha Kalvakuntla dismisses the notion that the TRS is a “family-run” party. She claims that it’s her work during the Telangana movement that had fetched her a party ticket to contest from the Nizamabad parliamentary constituency. Her way of drumming up support for her candidature in the district is simple: “This is our Telangana, let’s vote for our own party (TRS)”. She is confident of making a successful debut in electoral politics while taking on two- time MP Madhu Yashki Goud of the Congress and Yendala Laxminarayana of the BJP, who is extensively banking on the Modi wave. As the polls draw closer, Nizamabad’s daughter-in-law (as she describes herself) is ...

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