“Ever since Chandrasekhar Rao anointed K.T. Rama Rao as his heir apparent, the rumblings within the party have only grown louder. Why he chose Rama Rao over Kavitha is open to speculation. Perhaps it was because she had lost an election, signalling weak ground support. Or, as some suggest, it could be the influence of a patriarchal mindset. But Kavitha, an ambitious politician, was unwilling to fade into the background. Her letter to her father, in which she derided her cousins at the party as ‘demons,’ was tactically leaked. To make matters worse for the BRS, Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s move to order a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project has further intensified the crisis,” explained political analyst Giri Nagaraja.