An exit leaves the door wide open

Following the departure of K Kavitha, daughter of BRS leader KCR, the Congress and the BJP are looking for ways to capitalise on the setback to the party. Aditi Phadnis writes

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Eatala Rajender's prognosis for the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is bleak. "This party is finished," he told Business Standard on the phone from Hyderabad after party founder K Chandrashekar Rao's (KCR's) daughter K Kavitha quit the party and all government positions after making serious allegations of corruption about other family members, specifically her cousin T Harish Rao.

"Every party has contradictions: Friendly rivalries over power and money, resolved through internal mechanisms by the leadership. In this party now, every member of the family claims to be a leader. And if everyone is a leader, everyone wants to become chief minister, make money, do dadagiri, who will sort out the disputes?"