K. Kavitha
| Kalvakuntla Kavitha | |
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| Member of Parliament | |
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Assumed office 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Madhu Yashki |
| Constituency | Nizamabad, Telangana |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
13 March 1978 Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh, India (now in Telangana, India) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Telangana Rashtra Samithi |
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| Children | 2 |
| Parents |
K. Chandrashekar Rao, K. Shobha |
| Residence | Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Website | www.KalvakuntlaKavitha.org |
Kalvakuntla Kavitha (born 13 March 1978) is an Member of Parliament and Telangana Rashtra Samithi party member. She is First Woman Parliamentarian of Telangana State. She represents Nizamabad Lok Sabha Constituency.
Kavitha's name is often associated with Bathukamma, a floral festival of Telangana, because of her efforts for the revival of the culture and organized celebrations for the past decade.
Kalvakuntla Kavitha was born at Siddipet on March 13, 1978 to Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao and Shobha. Her father is leader of Telangana Movement and first Chief Minister of Telangana state. Her father hailed from Chinthamadaka village in Siddipet District, Telangana.
Kavitha studied in Siddipet, up to 2nd grade then continued her schooling from Stanley Girls High School in Hyderabad. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from JNTU (VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology) she went to the USA and had a short stint at University of Southern Mississippi to pursue her Masters in Computer Sciences.
Kavitha is married to Devanipally Anil Kumar, and engineer and business man. Kavitha has two sons, Aditya and Arya.
She worked in the US as a software engineer before she returned to India in 2004. After returning to India in 2004, she stayed at home for a while, taking care of her new born son. As first generation woman entrepreneur, she started beauty saloon business and managed it until she entered into the Telangana movement.
In 2006, the Telangana movement got a fresh impetus with the resignation of its leader K Chandrashekhar Rao from the Union Cabinet to express his strong dissent with the Central Government for going back on the promise of Telangana State formation.
This inspired millions of people from Telangana, who left their careers to join the movement. Motivated by the commitment and sacrifices made by the movement’s leader and others who joined the movement, Kavitha plunged herself in the people’s movement.
To get a first hand knowledge of the problems affecting the people, Kavitha traveled the length and breadth of Telangana, touring the most remote villages. This journey led to a paradigm shift in Kavitha’s understanding of society in general and Telangana in particular.
The magnitude of poverty, lack of basic needs like power, potable and irrigated water, unemployment and related exploitation moved her.
Despite the despair in Telangana, Kavitha observed, Telangana people had a great love and enthusiasm for indigenous art and culture across all sections. Kavitha believed that love for indigenous arts, could be a common thread to bind all sections of the society together. Bathukamma was one of the unique festivals, which is connected to the hearts of people of Telangana. By celebrating Bathukamma on a large scale and involving people from all sections of the society, she aimed to instill a sense of pride in their own culture.
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