Hyderabad, April 21 -- With Congress leader Rahul Gandhi again raising the allegation of the Election Commission being 'compromised,' while speaking to Indian diaspora in US, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ramchander Rao on Monday slammed such remarks, claiming that the issue has been brought up because the party is "jealous of losing elections."

"Rahul Gandhi, after losing almost every election in the state and also in the parliament, who once upon a time, the Congress party held over 400 seats, and now has only 90, and for the first time, they got only 40. Now they have tried to blame the Election Commission for this. EC is a Constitutional body, a statutory body so therefore, bringing up the issue and calling it fraud is objectionable,...