Hyderabad, Sept. 9 -- BRS Working President KT Rama Rao on Tuesday mounted a sharp counterattack on Congress leader Jairam Ramesh's remarks regarding political alignments in the Vice-Presidential election, asserting that the arrogance of the Congress party has been its biggest undoing in national politics.

In a statement here, while responding to Ramesh's tweet that suggested parties abstaining from the poll were indirectly siding with the BJP, KTR said the Congress continues to be trapped in an outdated "either with us or with them" binary.

"Jairam Ji, this sense of entitlement and arrogance is what made Congress fail in contemporary politics. 'Either you are with us or else you're with them' claim is a silly argument, posturing as if th...