Hyderabad, March 6 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA T Harish Rao on Friday, March 6, accused the Congress government of diverting money meant for the people of Telangana to campaign in Kerala, where elections are due soon.

"The Congress government has turned Telangana into an ATM to fund works in other states. They are funding advertisement campaigns in Kerala," he said. Rao accused Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy of lying about the state coffers being empty.

He alleged that newspaper advertisements for Kerala elections have photos of the Chief Minister as well as Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka. Rao said the Congress would trouble people in Kerala by promising to implement their six guarantees just as they did in Telang...