Hyderabad, Jan. 8 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Working President K.T. Rama Rao (KTR) strongly countered Congress leaders who criticised his recent comments about Rahul Gandhi, reminding them that it was Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, not him, who repeatedly "abused the Gandhi family" in the past.

KTR challenged the Congress to first question their own Chief Minister before pointing fingers at the opposition.

"Rahul Gandhi was called 'Mudda Pappu' by Revanth Reddy himself. I only repeated what your own Chief Minister said," KTR asserted.

He further recalled that Revanth Reddy had gone to the extent of describing Sonia Gandhi as a 'sacrificial goddess who took the lives of a thousand people and killed Telangana's children.'

KTR expres...