K Kavitha resigned from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi and stepped down as a member of the Telangana Legislative Council on Wednesday, a day after she was suspended by the party.

On Tuesday, the BRS said that Kavitha was suspended by her father and party chief K Chandrashekar Rao for alleged anti-party activities.

The action had come a day after she accused her cousins, former minister T Harish Rao and ex-MP J Santosh Rao, of amassing assets while making K Chandrashekar Rao a “scapegoat” in the alleged Kaleshwaram project scam.

On Wednesday, addressing a press conference in Hyderabad, Kavitha said that she would obey the party’s decision. She added that her father was forced to take a harsh decision against her due to pressure from Harish Rao and Santosh Rao, The Hindu reported.

She said that she would not join any other political party.

Meanwhile, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, whom Kavitha has accused of having a “tacit understanding” with her cousins, slammed the BRS on Wednesday for dragging his name into the “family crisis”, The Indian Express reported.

During her press conference, Kavitha had alleged that Reddy and Harish Rao had planned to “destroy the family” while travelling together on a flight.

Reddy dismissed this claim while speaking at a public event in Mahabubnagar.

“BRS is an expired currency note,” The Indian Express quoted the chief minister as saying. “They were...

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