Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) senior leader K Kavitha commenced a six-hour-long hunger strike today in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar seeking to introduce the Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament which has been pending for a long.

The protest was inaugurated by the CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury and held by Kavitha’s NGO Bharat Jagriti. Among the leaders present at the strike were Samajwadi Party leader Seema Shukla, Telangana Education Minister Savita Indra Reddy as well as state Women and Child Welfare Minister Sathyavathi Rathore.

Sanjay Singh and Chitra Sarwara from Aam Aadmi Party(AAP), Naresh Gujral from Akali Dal, Anjum Javed Mirza from People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Shami Firdous from National Conference (NC), Sushmita Dev from Trinamool Congress, KC Tyagi from Janata Dal-United (JDU), Seema Malik from Nationalist Congress Party India (NCP), Narayana K from Communist Party of India (CPI), Shyam Rajak from Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), Priyanka Chaturvedi from Shiv Sena and ex-Congress leader Kapil Sibal have confirmed their participation.

On Thursday, Kavitha said 18 political parties will participate in the protest. But, as of now, leaders of 12 political parties have joined the BRS leader looking for early passage of the Women’s Bill which seeks to reserve 33 percent of seats in Lok Sabha and all state legislative assemblies for women.

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When asked whether any politicians from the Congress will join her in her protest, Kavitha on Thursday said she had written to the party’s leader Mallikarjun Kharge asking him to send representatives from his party to take part.

Kavitha, who is facing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) heat in the now-scrapped Delhi liquor scam, hit at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for not fulfilling its promises. She said BJP had promised to implement the legislation in the run-up to the 2014 and 2019 general elections but did not keep the word despite coming to power with a clear majority.

The BRS leader’s hunger strike comes a day before her questioning by the ED on March 11. Kavitha said she will face ED as she has not done anything wrong.

The ED case alleges that the K Kavitha is part of the South Cartel that benefited from kickbacks after Delhi’s now-scrapped liquor policy came into force.

The BRS leader has denied the allegations and accused the center of misusing probe agencies for political goals. She said BJP has been constantly sending probe agencies to Telangana since last year because the elections in the state are due in November or December.

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