Hyderabad, Dec. 19 -- : BRS Working President KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Friday held a cordial meeting with newly elected BRS sarpanches from Sircilla district and launched a sharp attack on Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, challenging him to face by-elections to prove his party's strength.

Addressing the gathering, KTR said if the Chief Minister's claim that 66 per cent of the people are with the Congress was true, he should have the courage to ask the MLAs who defected from the BRS to resign and contest elections. "Let the people decide who they are with and what the real strength of each party is," he said.

KTR alleged that the Chief Minister frequently changes his statements and recalled that Revanth Reddy himself had earlier said that peopl...