Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Working President KT Rama Rao (KTR) criticised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and the Indian National Congress (INC) for alleged double standards on their stance against industrialist Gautam Adani.

In a letter to Rahul Gandhi, KTR accused the Telangana Congress, under Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, of contradicting the party’s national rhetoric on corruption and crony capitalism.

KTR highlighted the Congress’s nationwide campaign against Adani, including its ‘Chalo Raj Bhavan’ program on December 18, as hypocritical, given Revanth Reddy’s actions in Telangana. He alleged that Reddy facilitated significant deals for the Adani Group at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year, securing investments worth thousands of crores.

The BRS leader also accused Revanth Reddy of accepting a Rs 100 crore donation from Adani, which was reportedly returned after the BRS exposed the transaction. Calling it a “textbook case of quid pro quo,” KTR questioned the Congress’s credibility in fighting corruption. He also alleged plans to privatise Telangana’s electricity bill collection project by handing it over to Adani.

KTR further claimed that Congress cabinet ministers, including Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, engaged in alleged land deals with Adani representatives in Hyderabad hotels. He called these actions “backroom dealings” that undermine the Congress’s public stance against crony capitalism.

KTR challenged Rahul Gandhi to address the alleged contradictions within the Congress. “Will you question your own Chief Minister on his ‘dosti’ with Adani, or will you remain silent to protect his vested interests?” KTR asked. He criticised the Congress’s anti-Adani campaign as a “political farce” and warned that the people of Telangana would not tolerate such “hypocrisy.”

In an open letter to Chief Minister Revanth Reddy on Wednesday, KTR had challenged him to initiate discussion on the Formula E-race issue in the State Assembly.

The BRS leader had written an open letter to Rahul Gandhi in November too, voicing his harsh criticism of the Congress-led government’s first year in office in Telangana.

He listed a series of grievances, suggesting that the Revanth Reddy-led administration not only failed to meet its campaign promises, it also regressed the state’s development by a decade.