Hyderabad, Sept. 13 -- BRS working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Friday lashed out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of maintaining a "conspiratorial silence" over the spate of defections of BRS legislators into the Congress fold, BRS said in a press release.

KTR said while Rahul Gandhi frequently raises the issue of "vote chori" in national politics, he has failed to utter a word against what he described as "brazen MLA chori" in Telangana. "Rahul Gandhi should be ashamed of this undemocratic and unconstitutional practice. This is a crime worse than the so-called vote chori he keeps talking about," KTR charged.

The BRS leader demanded that Rahul Gandhi respond to the statements of defected MLAs, who, despite winning on BRS...