Hyderabad, July 24 -- Telangana Congress Government Whip Adi Srinivas launched a sharp attack on the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), accusing the party of attempting to mislead the public and evade accountability over the phone tapping scandal.

Addressing a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan on Thursday, Srinivas said the BRS's stance on the phone tapping issue is akin to a thief calling out another thief.

"For a decade, they indulged in illegal phone tapping and now they are publishing slanderous articles in their own newspapers to target the Congress government," he alleged.

He asserted that the people of Telangana have already given a strong verdict to the BRS in the recent Lok Sabha elections. "The masterminds and actors behind the pho...