Hyderabad: TRS President and current CM KCR who led the movement for a separate Telangana state from Andhra Pradesh is having his roots connected to the Coastal Andhra region.
TDP has conducted an intense research to trace CM KCR’s lineage which revealed that his forefathers are from north Andhra’s Coastal village Vizianagaram.
In a media delegation in Buddipet village, D. Jagadeeswara Rao Vizianagaram district TDP unit president spoke to the village elders who indeed affirmed that CM KCR’s forefathers did live in the village.
A village elder said, “KCR’s grandfather and great-grandfather had lived in the village and theirs was the only family with the Kalvakuntla surname in the village”.
Another Velama community member a 70-year-old Mulagasarla Satyanarayana recalls that KCR’s grandfather Venkatrao and his great-grandfather Rama Rao lived in their ancestral home in the village before migrating to Karimnagar.
He said, “We bought the house 30 years ago and the Kalvakuntla family migrated to Karimnagar because of frequent droughts here”, adding KCR belongs to the Velama community.
Adding, “Being one of us, KCR was leading the separate Telangana movement and dubbing the Andhra people as looters.”
After KCR’s ancestral roots have now been revealed TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu attacked KCR’s double standards.
He said, “KCR himself is a settler in Telangana. How can he declare the other Andhra settlers as betrayers? Now that his roots are exposed, he should tender an apology to the people of Andhra for his intemperate remarks”.
Defending his father, KCR’s son and Siricilla MLA K.T. Rama Rao who replied saying their past seven generations lived in Karimnagar.