Hyderabad, Dec. 20 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Saturday, December 20, challenged Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy to get all the 10 defected BRS MLAs to resign and face by-elections. He also said that BRS supremo and ex-CM K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) will "provide clear direction" to party cadres at the upcoming state-level meeting.

Accusing some of the defected BRS MLAs of lying before the Telangana Speaker, KTR said that they have been reduced to "bat like existence". He also censured the state government's decision to expand the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits, stating that it will cause "municipal chaos". Terming it as an "unscientific ward delimitation and the arbi...