A pointed broadside against the Congress government in Telangana came on Thursday, October 15, 2026, when BRS working president K. T. Rama Rao accused Chief Minister Revanth Reddy of personally presiding over a culture of corruption — and dared both Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to respond.

In a sharply worded post on X, KTR alleged that corruption in Telangana does not begin at the level of a government clerk — it starts at the top. 'When a company's MD gives in writing that the CMO demands 15% commission and CM himself allots projects to cronies, you know how rotten the system is,' he wrote, attaching three images to the post as purported supporting material.

The '15% Commission' Claim and What It Alleges

The most explosive element of KTR's post is a reference to a written statement by the managing director of a company alleging that the Chief Minister's Office demanded a 15 per cent commission on project allotments. This claim, if substantiated, would constitute a serious charge of institutional corruption at the highest level of state government. NationPress has not independently verified this document. The research available confirms this allegation cannot be established from public records, and the Revanth Reddy government has not, at the time of writing, issued a formal response.

KTR further accused the Chief Minister of neglecting core governance priorities — farmers, water, power, education, and health — in favour of what he called building an 'Anumula Empire', a reference to Revanth Reddy's family name and native place. The phrase is a political barb, not a verified characterisation.

KTR Targets Gandhi and Modi in the Same Breath

The post's most politically calculated move was its dual targeting of national leaders from opposing parties. KTR described Rahul Gandhi as 'silent' because, in his framing, Revanth Reddy functions as 'his ATM' — implying financial flows from the state leadership to the national party. In the same post, he questioned why Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not directed central agencies to act on the alleged corruption.

This dual pressure is a recognisable BRS playbook: squeezed between a Congress state government and a BJP-led centre, the party frames itself as the only force fighting for Telangana's interests from both directions. It is a position BRS has occupied since losing power in the 2023 Telangana assembly elections, when Congress ended a decade of BRS rule to form the state government under Revanth Reddy.

Telangana's Political Temperature Since 2023

Telangana, carved out as a separate state in 2014, has seen unusually sharp political polarisation since the power transition. BRS, which governed for the state's first nine years, has been aggressive in opposition — using allegations of governance failure on irrigation, power supply, and farmer welfare as its primary attack lines. These are sectors where the previous BRS government itself faced scrutiny, making the exchanges charged on both sides.

KTR's invocation of the hashtag #CongressFailedTelangana signals a coordinated opposition messaging campaign rather than an isolated post. Whether any formal complaint or central agency inquiry follows these allegations will determine whether this remains political noise or escalates into a governance crisis with legal dimensions.