Thu Mar 13 06:25:15 UTC 2025: ## Telangana’s Ruling Congress and Opposition BRS Trade Insults in Bitter Feud

HYDERABAD, INDIA – A bitter feud between Telangana’s ruling Congress party and the opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) escalated sharply this week, marked by a series of personal attacks and arrests. The conflict ignited after Chief Minister Revanth Reddy made a crude remark about BRS leader and former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR), threatening to send those questioning his “stature” to the morgue.

This prompted a furious response from KTR (KT Rama Rao), KCR’s son and BRS working president, who took to X (formerly Twitter) to call Reddy a “mad dog” and urged his family to seek mental health assistance for him. KTR’s statement followed his earlier claim that KCR wouldn’t attend the assembly’s budget session because no Congress member could match his “stature.” Reddy retorted that “stature” belongs to elected officials, not individuals.

The escalating verbal attacks were further fueled by the arrest of two women journalists, P Revathi and Tanvi Yadav, from Pulse News, and an X user, “NippuKodi,” for allegedly posting derogatory comments about the Chief Minister online. Police claim the news channel offered financial incentives for the posts. KTR condemned the arrests, alleging a return to an “Emergency-like” state under the Congress rule, while drawing parallels to a previous arrest of Revathi under the BRS administration. The arrests have drawn criticism from opposition parties who view them as an attack on press freedom. The intense animosity between the two parties underscores the deep political divisions in Telangana following the Congress’s victory in the 2023 state elections.

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