Hyderabad, Jan. 23 -- Ahead of appearing before SIT in connection with phone tapping case, BRS Working President KT Rama Rao on Friday launched an attack on Telangana CM Revanth Reddy, calling him a "thief" and alleging that the latter was trying to buy BRS MLAs when they were in power.

Speaking to ANI, he claimed, "In 2015, when BRS was in power in Telangana, we held a man with Rs 50 lakhs who had come to buy our MLAs. Unfortunately, this thief is the current CM of Telangana. This thief thinks everyone works the same way he does."

He maintained his stance that the SIT notice would not deter or scare them, as they are not in the wrong, and slyly remarked that it is free publicity for them.

"He thinks we will be scared by a police summo...