Hyderabad, Oct. 22 -- Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president N Ramchander Rao on Thursday criticised Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge over the latter's remarks targeting the ruling party regarding caste discrimination and women's reservation. He accused the Congress of dividing society along caste, community and religious lines for political interests.

Reacting to Kharge's statement that Hinduism was facing the threat of extinction due to untouchability and caste discrimination, Rao alleged that the Congress was responsible for the persistence of casteism in the country despite having governed India for several decades after Independence.

"Again and again, he is blaming the Bharatiya Janata Party government for caste not ...