Hyderabad, Oct. 29 -- The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Thursday, October 29, stepped up its attack on the Congress government over the Telangana Overseas Manpower Company (TOMCOM), following Siasat.com's two-part investigation into the state agency's Germany job programmes.

Addressing the media at Telangana Bhavan, BRS general secretary RS Praveen Kumar accused Labour Minister G Vivek Venkatswamy of travelling abroad at taxpayers' expense while job aspirants who had paid TOMCOM lost their money. He called it the "TOMCOM scam."

Siasat.com's investigation found that none of the 24 Ausbildung candidates who spoke to it could name a German employer that had interviewed them. Candidates said a contract weakening the promise of interviews ...