Hyderabad, Feb. 15 -- BJP leader N Ramchander Rao on Saturday condemned Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy's remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's caste terming them as "cheap" and in poor political taste.

Rao said that the statement was made to divert the people's attention from the caste census "fiasco" of the Congress government in the State.

"The remarks by the Chief Minister of Telangana about the caste of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are cheap and in poor political taste. This statement has been made by the Congress party only to divert their caste census fiasco, which has failed in the state," Rao told ANI.

"Their ministers themselves said that the entire census needs to be reviewed since some people have been left out,"...