The minister’s daughter named the Chief Minister. Then she named Parkal.

Wednesday at Geesugonda, Warangal. A birthday gathering for Forest and Endowments Minister Konda Surekha. Her daughter, Konda Sushmita Patel, used the mike on the Chief Minister.

She called the ruling party a "TDP Congress." She said A. Revanth Reddy had grown arrogant after the chair. She said he was afraid, and that he was using the Intelligence Department against his own ministers. She said she is the next MLA of Parkal, and that if the high command denies her a ticket she will fight as an independent. She challenged the Chief Minister, or his family, to enter the fray. She said she would build a house in Parkal and live there. She asked who he was to decide her ticket.

The trigger was public. On a recent tour of the old Warangal district the Chief Minister told a Parkal meeting that sitting Congress MLA Revuri Prakash Reddy would contest the seat again, and asked people to bless him. Surekha was not on that tour. Sushmita's father, former MLA and former MLC Konda Murali, had already said his daughter would fight Parkal. She had put "Upcoming Parkal MLA Konda Sushmita Patel" on Instagram.

She also alleged a ₹200 crore land allotment linked to the Chief Minister's brother through a shell company — a charge the Bharat Rashtra Samithi has been pressing, and which Congress leaders say followed due process. She asked why Backward Class leaders were being insulted, why Minister Ponnam Prabhakar's photograph was left out of an Indiramma Houses event, and why TPCC president B. Mahesh Kumar Goud was silent. She asked what advice Rajya Sabha MP Vem Narender Reddy gave the Chief Minister besides, in her telling, helping a brother float a company. She said Revanth had promised Murali a Legislative Council seat and gone back on it. She dared Prakash Reddy to resign and face her in a by-election, and said she would win even if the Chief Minister campaigned against her. Those sentences are allegations. They are now also a party file.

On Thursday the file moved. Goud said in Nizamabad that the disciplinary committee had sought an explanation from Surekha, and that action would follow anyone who speaks against the party in public. Disciplinary chairman Mallu Ravi condemned the remarks as damaging to the Chief Minister's reputation and said strict action against Sushmita was being prepared. AICC Telangana in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan asked Goud for a full report.

This is not a first offence in the family's own calendar. In October 2025, after police came to the Hyderabad house over an extortion case against a sacked aide, Sushmita accused the Chief Minister, Vem Narender Reddy and Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy of targeting her Backward Class parents. Surekha apologised then and called it anger. The apology did not hold the mike this week.

A cabinet minister's daughter announcing an independent run from the seat the Chief Minister has already gifted in a speech is not a drawing-room quarrel. It is a public split on who owns Parkal, on BC representation inside the Telangana Congress, and on whether a show-cause notice to the mother is enough to silence the daughter. Surekha has the notice. Sushmita has the independent threat. The Chief Minister has the sitting MLA. Parkal has two years and one open fight.

Parties discipline the relative they can reach. They rarely discipline the speech that already travelled. If Surekha's reply is another apology, the Parkal claim will still be on Instagram. If the party suspends the daughter and keeps the mother, Warangal will read that as a caste lesson, not a rule. The civic fact is simpler than the faction map: a sitting minister's child has told the State that the Congress ticket is optional, and that the Chief Minister does not decide Parkal. The disciplinary committee asked the minister to explain her daughter. The daughter has already explained herself.