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KCR's Daughter K Kavitha's Hunger Strike In Delhi Today, 12 Parties To Join

New Delhi:

K Kavitha, senior leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), is holding a hunger strike in New Delhi today demanding the introduction of Women's Reservation Bill in Parliament.

Leaders of several opposition parties, including the Congress, Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Party, are expected to participate in Ms Kavitha's day-long protest at Jantar Mantar in the national capital.

This comes a day before her questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the Delhi liquor policy scam.Ms Kavitha, who is also the daughter of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, had yesterday said that 18 parties have extended support to her protest.

"We released a poster on March 2 about the hunger strike in Delhi over the Women's Reservation Bill. ED summoned me on March 9. I requested for March 16, but don't know what haste they're in, so I agreed for March 11," she told reporters in the national capital yesterday.