KCR's Daughter's Sharp Reply To Rahul Gandhi Remarks

Regional parties are successful "because they have a clear agenda," unlike the Congress that will soon become a "tail party", TRS leader Kalvakuntla Kavitha said. The sharp reactions were a reply to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's recent remarks at the party's brainstorming camp in Rajasthan.

Kavitha said that regional parties have no leadership crisis, unlike the grand old party, which is taking a swipe at the Congress.

"When our country is reeling with unemployment and communal disharmony, Rahul Gandhi expressed anguish about the success of regional parties. We are successful because we perform. Unlike the Congress, regional parties don't have a leadership crisis," the TRS leader said.

In his address at his party's "Chintan Shivir" (brainstorming camp) in Udaipur, Mr Gandhi had claimed that regional parties cannot fight the BJP and the RSS as they lack ideology. The Congress can fight them, he had said.

Almost all the regional parties, including Congress’s former alliance partners like the Rashtriya Janata Dal, criticized his remarks.

Kavitha, a former MP from Nizamabad, also criticized the central govt over its decision to auction the Adilabad Unit of Cement Corporation of India Limited (CCI) as it will affect the jobs of thousands of workers.