India, Oct. 5 -- In Telangana's argument over political wealth, each side has an inventory of the other's assets. What the public needs is an account of its own.

Congress has been questioning the land and business interests of the Kalvakuntla family. The BRS has answered with allegations about Chief Minister Revanth Reddy's family, challenges to joint inquiries and a defence of its own businesses. Neither side's accusation settles the questions directed at each other.

These exchanges deserve to be followed in order. It paints a picture of how an argument about land became an argument about hotels, and then about hospitals and thousands of crores. Caught in the middle of this political mudslinging between the rich leaders and their polit...