New Delhi, Sept. 12 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Working President KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Friday lashed out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of maintaining a 'conspiratorial silence' over the spate of BRS legislators' defections into the Congress fold.

KTR said while Rahul Gandhi frequently raises the issue of 'vote chori' in national politics, he has failed to utter a word against what he described as "brazen MLA chori" in Telangana.

"Rahul Gandhi should be ashamed of this undemocratic and unconstitutional practice. This is a crime worse than the so-called vote chori he keeps talking about," KTR said.

The BRS leader demanded that Rahul Gandhi respond to the statements of defected MLAs, who, despite winning on BRS tickets...