Hyderabad: A day after senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh accused Bhartiya Janata Party’s (BJP) vice-presidential candidate Venkaiah Naidu and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) of corruption, the two parties hit back at him, demanding that he take back his words for the ‘false statements’. Rama Rao on Tuesday demanded an apology for him, and said that the Congress leader should mind his words before making any statements. He added that the Telangana government has been working sincerely and that Ramesh should have thought carefully before making any such statements. Earlier in the day, Telangana unit’s BJP president K. Laxman also censured Ramesh and mocked the Congress for “talking about corruption”. “He had even said that India will ‘get the Nobel prize for filth and our cities are the dirtiest in the world’,” the BJP leader said at a press conference.

Source: Mint July 25, 2017 15:45 UTC