Hyderabad, April 10 -- Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar has hit back at Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy after he said that the Congress will not allow the BJP to gain a foothold in the state at any cost. He wondered how the Chief Minister, who" couldn't make Congress win in his native Mahabubnagar," could stop the BJP.

"Telangana CM couldn't make Congress win in his native Mahabubnagar--lost to a BJP MP. He couldn't hold his sitting seat in Malkajgiri--again lost to the BJP. He came third in Kamareddy, defeated directly by a BJP MLA. Even in the MLC polls, Congress lost to the BJP," Kumar said in a post on X.

"In Hyderabad, Congress doesn't even have candidates--they're backing MIM. Yet today in Ahmedab...