Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s daughter and former MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha became the first woman politician in South India to clock a million followers on the microblogging site Twitter.
Kavitha, a former MP of Nizamabad Lok Sabha Constituency, joined Twitter during Telangana agitation days. She joined the Telangana statehood campaign in 2008 and gave a cultural thrust to the movement by launching an NGO called Telangana Jagruthi to connect the spirit of Telangana with the movement.
After the new state was formed, Kalvakuntla Kavitha became the first woman MP from Telangana raising the issues related to the state in Parliament.
As a parliamentarian and a social worker, she ran various campaigns that did ring a bell among larger audiences.
Her campaign #SistersForChange and #GiftAHelmet saw massive engagement online and on-ground. Celebrities and common people joined the bandwagon that led to a national Twitter trend during every Raksha Bandhan festival.
Kavitha’s latest campaign #ThankYouWarriors that Kavitha had run to thank CoviD-19 frontline warriors while serving society have left a long-lasting digital and real impression upon people. She reached out to frontline Covid Warriors thanking them and celebrating their invaluable contribution towards combating Covid-19.
The mark on Twitter that Kavitha has achieved in terms of follower count is yet to be surpassed by any of her women colleagues in south India.
