Hyderabad, March 13 -- Senior Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader T Harish Rao has written an open letter to Rahul Gandhi, accusing the Congress party of adopting "double standards" on protecting the Constitution amid the ongoing controversy over defections in Telangana.

The letter comes against the backdrop of developments in the Supreme Court of India, which on Thursday disposed of contempt petitions alleging non-compliance with its earlier order directing the Telangana Assembly Speaker to decide disqualification pleas against MLAs who defected from the BRS to the ruling Congress.

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A Bench comprising Justices Sanjay Karol and AG Masih closed the contempt proceedings after being informed t...