Hyderabad, Sept. 27 -- Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) leader and MLC Dr Balmoor Venkat today criticised BJP leaders for failing to stand by the people affected by the Moosi floods in Hyderabad.

Addressing a press meet at Gandhi Bhavan, he said that BJP leaders who had once staged symbolic protests in the flood-hit areas are now nowhere to be seen when people are facing severe hardship.

Venkat recalled that union Minister G Kishan Reddy and other BJP leaders had spent a night in the Moosi flood-affected areas last year, but ironically, the very same houses are now submerged.

"If they were sincere, they should once again go and sleep in those houses which are under water today. Instead, when the government tried to provide a p...