Hyderabad: Telangana Congress has launched a blistering attack on the K. Chandrashekar Rao-led BRS, accusing the party’s top leadership of turning a public movement into a dynastic empire now buckling under the weight of internal greed and financial power struggles.
TPCC spokesperson Syed Nizamuddin, addressing the media at Gandhi Bhavan on Monday, alleged that the current infighting between K.T. Rama Rao, K. Kavitha, T. Harish Rao, and Santosh Rao was not ideological, but a scramble to control assets worth over ₹2,000 crore amassed during the BRS regime.
“From ₹5 crore in 2011–12 to ₹1,191 crore in 2022–23 that’s what they declared. Add benami properties, shell firms, and undisclosed wealth, and the real figure crosses ₹2,000 crore,” he claimed, holding up financial documents and Election Commission filings.
Nizamuddin presented year-on-year asset growth data ₹14.49 crore in 2016–17, ₹188.73 crore in 2018–19, ₹301.47 crore in 2019–20, ₹512.23 crore in 2021–22, and ₹1,191.41 crore in 2022–23 arguing that such exponential wealth accumulation could not occur without systemic corruption.
He also alleged that BRS’s ₹738 crore income in 2022–23, with ₹154 crore coming from just 47 donors, pointed to a “contractor-politician nexus”. “These are not anonymous well-wishers. These are entities who made fortunes during BRS rule,” he said, adding that the party’s income and expenditure matching to the rupee signalled laundering-like operations.
Pointing to internal cracks within the KCR family, Nizamuddin said the silence of KCR, the re-emergence of Harish Rao, and the frustration evident in Kavitha’s recent actions were part of a larger succession war. “Every meeting, every press conference is not about rebuilding BRS it’s about dividing the loot,” he said.
He referred to the now-public six-page letter reportedly written by Kavitha to her father, where she called KCR ‘godlike’ but lamented being surrounded by ‘demons’. “That wasn’t a daughter’s anguish it was a power play,” Nizamuddin noted.
He accused the family of avoiding scrutiny over donor ties, alleging many had received favours in return. “This is not politics. This is quid pro quo disguised as governance,” he charged.
Demanding a court-monitored probe into the BRS financial network, Nizamuddin said the Congress would continue pushing for transparency in donations, land deals, electoral bonds, and personal assets of the KCR family.
“This is not just political collapse it’s moral and institutional decay. The Telangana movement was hijacked for private profiteering, and now that venture is collapsing under its own greed,” he said.
He appealed to voters to reject dynastic politics and back clean governance. “The BRS has become a cartel obsessed with money, power, and inheritance. It’s time to end this political business once and for all,” he concluded.
