A day after Rahul Gandhi ridiculed Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's national political ambitions, senior TRS leader KT Rama Rao took a dig at the Congress leader over his loss in Amethi in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. KT Rama Rao or KTR, TRS working president and IT Minister, called Rahul Gandhi an "international leader" and a "wannabe PM" who could not even win his own parliament seat in Amethi.  


KTR said Gandhi had no stature to criticise his father K Chandrasekhar Rao's (KCR) national party ambitions.


"International leader Rahul Gandhi who can't even win his own parliament seat in Amethi ridicules Telangana CM KCR Ji's national party ambitions. Wannabe PM should first convince his people to elect him as an MP (from Amethi)," KTR tweeted.






KTR's response came a day after Rahul Gandhi, who is leading the party's Bharat Jodo yatra, on Monday said the Telangana CM was even welcome to think he was running an international party that is fighting elections in the US or China.


Gandhi amde the remarks when asked by reporters about TRS's decision to enter national politics by changing the party's name to Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). 


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Senior congress leader Jairam Ramesh backed Rahul's comments on KCR's national ambitions and said "we know that here in Hyderabad eighth Nizam sits".


Addressing a press conference, Ramesh said KCR's party can become "GRS" (Global Rashtra Samithi) also and Congress has nothing to do with it.


"Congress party is not a Nizam Shahi Party. We know that here in Hyderabad eighth Nizam sits," Ramesh said in an apparent reference to KCR.


He also alleged some TRS leaders were involved in a passport scam of 2007.


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"If he (KCR) wants to become GRS, let me remind him that in 2007, TRS was stuck in a passport scam. You may remember there was a big passport scam and several TRS leaders were involved in it. I want to remind KTR of the history of TRS," the Congress leader said.


"Who benefited from the formation of Telangana? This is our question. Dalits, Adivasis, and backward classes have not benefited. Only one person and one family benefited," Ramesh further said.


(With inputs from PTI)