Hyderabad, Aug. 2 -- BRS Working President KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, demanding an unconditional public apology for Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy's remarks describing engineering students as "criminal waste".

In a strongly worded four-page letter addressed to Rahul Gandhi, KTR questioned whether the Telangana Chief Minister's remarks represented the Congress party's official position on students, engineers and young people.

Holding Rahul Gandhi politically and morally responsible as the Congress leader who campaigned for the party and chose Revanth Reddy as Chief Minister, KTR said the Congress cannot distance itself from the controversial remark...