When former Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MP and MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha launched her party at an event near Hyderabad Saturday , she was surrounded by hundreds of men and women who had all been part of her cultural organisation, Telangana Jagruthi, which she had founded in 2006. When her followers welcomed Kavitha on the sprawling stage at Munirabad in Medchal mandal, it virtually seemed as if she had never left the BRS — the party founded by her father and former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, popularly known as KCR, in 2001. The optics at the event looked familiar — the mood, songs, speeches and even the crowd. And then came the announcement of her new party’s name – Telangana Rashtra Sena (TRS), which echoed the name of KCR’s party: For the Bharat Rasthra Samithi, before it decided to go national in 2023, was called the Telangana Rashtra Samithi.…