Hyderabad, May 1 -- Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy has strongly responded to BRS chief and former chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao's (KCR) criticism of the Congress party, saying that KCR has "no moral right" to comment after ruling the state for 10 years and "looting Telangana."

Reddy's remarks came after KCR, during a public meeting in Elkathurthy, Warangal, marking BRS's silver jubilee, called the Congress "Villain Number One" of Telangana. KCR had accused the Congress of failing to fulfil its promises and claimed the party forced the merger of Telangana with Andhra Pradesh in 1956 against the will of the people.

Speaking at the Mahatma Basaveshwara birth anniversary celebration in Hyderabad, Revanth Reddy countered KCR'...