A soft look but a tough politician, a proud Telangana beti, a caring daughter and a loving mother, TRS MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha has grown in stature over the years and has achieved name and fame interntionally. . Calling herself a pampered KCRs beti, she reinstated that politics is not a part-time profession.
Being very proud of her father for achieving Telangana Kavitha says that he doesn’t directly praise, like typical, orthodox fathers, but puts it in such a weird way that I don’t know if he is praising me or not. My dad is a very adamant person and he will do what he thinks is right. He has proved himself beyond a point. I am an ardent ‘Papa ki Beti’ and will always argue with people on how he is right. I believe in him and will stand by him. One should be a Hitler sometimes to get things done.
She sid being KCRs and CMs daughter has more disadvantages than advantages. As his daughter, so many approach me and talk to me. I wonder where all these people were. The scariest part is that I don’t know if the person talking to me is even serious. Talking about her busy schedules Kavitha explained It’s my conscious decision today to have such a busy life, and I need to get things right instead of stressing out. Being a modern woman, I compartmentalise my life very well and I manage my time properly.
I discussed this with my husband and in-laws, and told them that they wouldn’t get much time. I prepared them and made them understand how life would be. They understand me, except for my sons as they are too young. I miss them and they miss me too. I try to make up as much as possible and sometimes I spoil them.
I feel guilty when I am away, but I sit with them and make them understand about my work. When they understand and respect your work, life becomes easier. I am already dealing with three boys, including my husband. It is amazing as I go home and my younger son addresses me in the Telangana slang, and I forget all my tensions. It feels like heaven.
We are a political family and all of us breathe, eat and drink politics. We always disagree with each other’s views. I am the one who is very vocal and we have arguments like every parent and child Kavitha says. If I was the chief minister for one day, I would appoint a woman inspector in every centre and also appoint more women police officials overall. It is very sad that no matter what happens, nothing is done for women. Women politicians, after coming to power, don’t do anything for women she opined.
Do your homework whenever you get into a party, otherwise people will take you for a ride. When you know you have your stuff right and when you make sense, people will shut up. Many don’t do their homework and don’t speak sense. They blame politicians and say that we don’t give them a chance. We run a party and it is difficult to find hardworking people.
Centre is better in a way as you can give your inputs for policy making, whereas state is more of implementation. Parlia-ment offers wider spectrum of issues to work on and I don’t want to restrict myself only to Telangana. Though development of Telangana is my ultimate goal, I want to work on other issues as well.
There are a lot of friends. Supriya Sule, Anupriya Patil and many senior BJP MPs come up to me and tell me that I am very active and I speak up. My oratory skills are a result of my hard work.
“I think competition is good and two Telugu states should progress. The only thing is that both the CMs don’t like each other. But, they have begun to shake hands and stuff, and the Governor made an effort to ease out things. In the memorandum they gave to the Group of Ministers, I had said that more projects between TS and AP that will help both states get along.
There will be some unhealthy tension for a few years, but we will try our best to put them off. Many negative elements are adding to this. We have never targeted Andhra people, we have targeted Andhra politicians and we will continue to do so. If they advocate against projects coming to Telangana, why would we be quite.
