Did BRS workers set fire to Telangana Bhavan in Hyderabad while celebrating suspension of Kavitha? Fact Check
Claim: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) workers set fire to Telangana Bhavan in Hyderabad while celebrating the suspension of Kalvakuntla Kavitha from the party.
Conclusion: Misrepresentation. The footage shown is not recent and dates back to March 2021 when the fire was caused by firecrackers.
Rating: Misrepresentation — 
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Some social media users have claimed that Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) workers set fire to Telangana Bhavan in Hyderabad while celebrating the suspension of Kalvakuntla Kavitha from the party. One X user shared such a claim on 2nd September 2025, accompanied by a footage.
The post included a video showing flames and smoke emanating from the Telangana Bhavan in Hyderabad. View the post below –
BRS karyakartas set fire to #Telangana Bhavan celebrating Kalvakuntla Kavitha’s suspension from the party.#BRS #Kavitha #Hyderabad
— Bollaboina Manish yadav (@Manish765_INC) September 2, 2025
Another X user echoed the same clip, featuring the same footage and caption in Telugu reads: “కల్వకుంట్ల కవితను పార్టీ నుండి సస్పెండ్ చేసిన సంబరంలో బీఆర్ఎస్ కార్యకర్తలు తెలంగాణ భవన్కు నిప్పంటించారు.”
In English this reads : Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) workers set fire to Telangana Bhavan in Hyderabad while celebrating the suspension of Kalvakuntla Kavitha from the party. View the post here:
*కల్వకుంట్ల కవితను పార్టీ నుండి సస్పెండ్ చేసిన సంబరంలో బీఆర్ఎస్ కార్యకర్తలు తెలంగాణ భవన్కు నిప్పంటించారు😂 pic.twitter.com/paSNJFiRp7
— Chaitanya Rao (@chaitanyarao50) September 2, 2025
FACT CHECK
DigitEYE India decided to investigate this claim. While the claims of the suspension are accurate, when we performed a Google reverse image search for various keyframes from the video, the results directed us to the actual incident from 20th March 2021 in a video posted by the Siasat Daily on their Youtube channel.
As per the Siasat daily, the fire accident happened due to fire crackers burnt to celebrate victory of BRS member in an MLC election. Other users and news outlets had shared the footage on 20th March 2021 which can be viewed here, here and here.
Following these results, we conducted a keyword search with the phrase “fire accident at Telangana Bhavan,” and landed on a report published by the Times of India on 20th March 2021, confirming the accident.
It states how a “minor fire broke out at Telangana Bhavan, the party headquarters of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), on Saturday when the party cadre burst crackers to celebrate the victory of Surabhi Vani Devi who won the election from Mahbubnagar-Rangareddy-Hyderabad Graduates’ MLC constituency.”
View a snippet from the report below –
Searches for recent fires at Telangana Bhavan in September 2025 yielded no results or reports of any such event. Hence, the claim is misrepresentation.
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