Hyderabad, March 17 -- Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy likened former chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) to the last Nizam of Hyderabad and remarked that just like the former, KCR also "destroyed Telangana's culture and traditions."

"Just like the Nizam, KCR also believed that his successors should rule after him." he said, during a 'meet the press' programme held on the occasion of the Congress government completing 100 days in power in Suravaram Pratap Reddy Auditorium at Basheerbagh on Sunday, March 17.

Revanth said that the people of Telangana got united after the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) "tried to push nepotism onto them and voted them out of power."

"KCR didn't believe in democracy. He showed Nizam's clone in ...