2 min readHyderabadUpdated: Apr 30, 2026 08:19 PM IST
K Kavitha’s party will be called Telangana Rakshana Sena (TRS), and not what she had announced on the day of its launch on April 25. This is after the Election Commission of India approved the name ‘Telangana Rakshana Sena’ (TRS) as a political party led by Kalvakuntla Kavitha.
This comes days after Kavitha announced that the party will be called Telangana Rashtra Sena, along the lines of her father’s party Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). The original TRS, which was launched in 2001 by its supremo and former chief minister of Telangana and Kavitha’s father K Chandrashekar Rao, is now known as Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).
Taking to X Kavitha wrote: “Telangana Rakshana Sena (TRS) it is! We will relentlessly work to serve and protect the people of Telangana, as we have done in the last two decades as Telangana Jagruthi”. Telangana Jagruthi is a cultural organisation founded by Kavitha in 2006.
She added: “In January 2026, following standard EC protocol, we submitted five name choices, and the Election Commission has officially granted our third choice. The only one with the acronym TRS. Destiny, it seems, has a sense of irony”.
