Congress fields Kadiyam Kavya from Warangal LS seat

The Congress on Monday announced Kadiyam Kavya as its party candidate for the Warangal Lok Sabha seat in Telangana.

The Central Election Committee of the party, which met in Delhi, selected Kavya as the candidate.

The announcement came a day after Kavya along with her father and senior leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), Kadiyam Srihari, joined the Congress.

The BRS had earlier named Kavya as its candidate for Warangal, which is a reserved seat for the Scheduled Castes.

She, however, announced her decision to opt out of the contest on March 28.

Kavya wrote to BRS chief K. Chandrashekar Rao that the allegations of corruption, encroachments, phone-tapping, and liquor scam against party leaders have damaged the party’s image.

The next day, AICC in-charge for Telangana, Deepa Dasmunshi, and other leaders met Srihari and his daughter and invited them to join the Congress.

On March 31, the father-daughter duo joined the Congress in the presence of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy.