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TRS to Contest Khairatabad Bypoll; Kavitha Slams Congress Over Nagender, Hospital Deaths
- •TRS president K Kavitha announced her party will contest the upcoming Khairatabad assembly by-election, necessitated by the disqualification of BRS MLA Danam Nagender.
- •Kavitha criticized the Congress for fielding Nagender in the 2024 Lok Sabha election despite his disqualification, urging people to hold the ruling party accountable.
- •She alleged the Congress government, led by CM A Revanth Reddy, is a complete failure, citing the recent deaths of five infants in a state-run hospital in Adilabad due to government apathy.
- •Kavitha presented data on alarming child mortality rates in government hospitals, claiming 6,000 deaths in 2020-21, 4,933 in 2022-23, and 3,853 in 2024-25, and criticized the government's low health budget allocation and spending.
- •TRS activists will inspect government hospitals in every district, and Kavitha urged the public and youth to document conditions and question authorities; she also defended her assets and dismissed CM Revanth Reddy's inquiries as an "eyewash".
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The bypoll was necessitated following the disqualification of sitting BRS MLA Danam Nagender, who defected to the ruling Congress. The Supreme Court upheld his disqualification by the Telangana High Court on September 24, 2024.
Kavitha alleged that child deaths in state-run hospitals are alarming due to government apathy, noting that 6,000 children died in 2020-21, 4,933 in 2022-23, and 3,853 in 2024-25. She also criticized the administration for spending only Rs 9,242 crore out of the Rs 13,192 crore allocated for health.
Kavitha denied any encroachments or violations regarding her farmhouse, stating that not even a square yard is under the Full Tank Level of any water body and that she earned every penny legally. Furthermore, she claimed that the inquiry announced by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy into BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao's farmhouse is merely an eyewash.
