Hyderabad, Feb. 10 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K T Rama Rao (KTR) on Saturday, February 10, slammed the Congress-led state government's decision to replace Telangana's state emblem with a new one.

"They (Congress) changed TS to TG and are calling it maarpu (change). They now do not want Charminar and Kakatiya Kala Thoranam in the official logo of Telangana because according to them, they represent aristocratic tendencies..Anybody who visits the state from anywhere across the world goes to Charminar. Charminar represents Hyderabad.." he remarked.

KTR also questioned the 'irony' of the Revanth-led state government in making poet Ande Sri's 'Jaya Jaya He Telangana' as the state song which "glorifies Golconda fort as N...