India, May 29 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) lawmaker Kalvakuntla Kavitha on Thursday targeted her party leadership, particularly her brother K T Rama Rao, alleging a conspiracy to merge Telangana's Opposition party with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

She told reporters that efforts were underway for the merger. "Even while I was in jail, proposals were made to merge with the BJP. I told my father [former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao] not to make hasty decisions and merge the BRS with the BJP. I said I was prepared to be in jail not just for six months but even for years, if necessary," she said, referring to her arrest in March 2024 in connection with the alleged irregularities in the now-scrapped Delhi liquor policy...