Hyderabad, Jan. 6 -- Telangana Jagruti president Kalvakuntla Kavitha on Monday broke down in the state legislative council while delivering his parting speech recounting her role in the Telangana statehood movement, her political journey, and the circumstances that led to her suspension and eventual resignation from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) headed by her father, former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.

Choked with emotion and with tears flowing down her cheeks, Kavitha said she had submitted her resignation from the MLC post in the prescribed format on September 3 last year, a day after her suspension from the BRS.

"It is not morally correct to continue in the MLC post which I got from the BRS, as I have severed all ties with ...