KCR’s daughter plans cricket foray

The Telangana Jagruti, the cultural arm of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti, is planning to make a big foray into cricket and other sports in the region to enlarge the parent party’s base.

According to sources, Telangana Jagruti, plans to establish cricket clubs in all 119 Assembly constituencies in the region. They said 12 of them will be established soon. The TRS chief, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter and president of the Telangana Jagruti, Ms Kavita, has recently registered the Telangana Cricket Association and is apparently planning to make inroads into Hyderabad Cricket Association too.

Sources say that along with several other politicians, Ms Kavita is also aiming for one of the two nominated vice-president’s posts in the HCA. Though several politicians and bigwigs have their eyes set on the HCA, the recent elections have proved that the former test cricketer, Mr Shivlal Yadav’s team calls the shots in the association. Mr Yadav’s team defeated the Congress MP, Mr G. Vivekanand, and the Congress leader, Mr Kasani Gyaneshwar, in the HCA elections.

Since there are already 214 clubs under HCA, the entry of new clubs has been banned and this has become a hurdle for the TCA to get a foot-hold into HCA. Thus, in a bid to create its own lobby, T-activists now plan to float new clubs and bring pressure on HCA to accept affiliations.

Ms Kavita had met the Union agriculture minister and ICC chairman, Mr Sharad Pawar, and sought recognition of the TCA. Mr Pawar had reportedly told her that it was no easy task to get an affiliation since it involved huge funds and asked her to wait for some time. She also met BCCI vice-president, Mr Arun Jaitley, in this regard. There are also plans to float football, hockey, badminton and other sports clubs in the region.