Hyderabad, March 22 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Prakash Reddy on Sunday criticised Rahul Gandhi over his recent "immature, ignorant and provocative" remarks on inflation.

Reddy futher said that without a proper scientific explanation, no one can say inflation will increase.

Addressing reporters, he said, "Leader of the opposition Rahul Gandhi's tweet is unfortunate. His statement is an immature, ignorant, and provocative statement... it is a political statement. How can a person without the proper scientific explanation say that India will go into inflation, and inflation will increase?... We strongly condemn the Rahul Gandhi statement. It's only to mislead the people of this country or to divert the issues from the different...