BRS Working President K.T. Rama Rao on Thursday, 17 September declared that his party is fully prepared for a comprehensive inquiry by a sitting High Court or Supreme Court judge into the family assets of both BRS chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao and Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, tracing their holdings back to their birth. Speaking to reporters after hoisting the National Flag at Telangana Bhavan on National Integration Day, Rama Rao threw the challenge directly at the Chief Minister to accept a court-supervised probe without delay.

What triggered the challenge

Rama Rao was responding to Chief Minister Revanth Reddy's announcement in the Telangana Assembly on Wednesday that an inquiry would be conducted into the landholdings of K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) and his family. Rama Rao countered by insisting that any such investigation must be conducted by a sitting judge — not by Special Investigation Teams (SITs) or special squads that the state government might constitute — and must cover the financial histories of both families equally.

'We have full faith in the judiciary,' Rama Rao said, adding that the BRS was 'fully prepared to face any legal consequence if even an iota of wrongdoing' was established against them.

The KCR land dispute: what BRS says

Rama Rao offered a detailed account of KCR's ancestral property, describing his life history as 'an open book.' He said KCR was born in 1954 into a landlord family in Chintamadaka, whose forefathers had owned hundreds of acres. According to Rama Rao, part of the family's original property in Konapur was acquired by the government for an irrigation project in the 1930s, and KCR's father used the compensation money to acquire land in Chintamadaka.

Rama Rao noted that Revanth Reddy himself had admitted in the Assembly that the disputed holding stood at 67 acres — far below the '1,000-acre farmhouse' figure the Chief Minister had previously cited repeatedly. 'Now, after 72 years, he has only 67 acres. Is that a reduction of wealth or an increase of wealth?' Rama Rao asked. He quipped that if the remaining 933 acres could be located, the family would willingly surrender them to the government.

BRS broadens attack on governance record

Rama Rao went beyond the asset dispute to mount a broader critique of the Congress-led state government, alleging that 420 electoral guarantees had proven 'entirely bogus' after what he called 1,000 days of 'administrative paralysis.' He accused the Chief Minister of orchestrating legislative proceedings without the principal opposition by engineering what he described as the undemocratic suspension of the BRS legislature party from the House.

He further alleged that CM Reddy was colluding with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to run Assembly sessions in the opposition's absence, and dared the government to extend the ongoing Monsoon Session by a month and revoke the suspensions. 'Instead of grandstanding that the opposition lacks the courage to look him in the eye, let him extend the session; we will not merely look you in the eye, we will grab you by the collar on behalf of the people of Telangana,' Rama Rao declared, citing unfulfilled promises including the ₹2,500 Mahalakshmi scheme, ₹4,000 pensions, Rythu Bandhu, and the cancellation of Rythu Bima.

Apology demand and what comes next

Rama Rao demanded a public apology from Chief Minister Revanth Reddy for what he called 'false propaganda and mudslinging' against KCR. He dismissed the CM's two-and-a-half-hour Assembly address as 'a monumental display of ignorance,' and cited past allegations — including claims of 150 bedrooms and golden bathrooms at Pragathi Bhavan, and secret tunnels beneath the Integrated Secretariat — as propaganda that had since been 'completely exposed.' Whether the Chief Minister accepts the judicial probe challenge or presses ahead with a government-constituted inquiry is now the central political question in Telangana.