Hyderabad, Oct. 16 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao has asked Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to examine three Hyderabad-based aerospace and defence firms, warning of the consequences if such companies end up supplying equipment to the armed forces.

Rama Rao made the appeal in a post on X, alleging that Hyderabad is becoming a hub for shell companies in the sector under the Congress government.

"God only can save India's armed forces if these are the kinds that supply equipment," he said.

He named Tesseract, which he linked to the Anumula family of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, and Raghava Aerospace, which he linked to the family of Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy. The third firm was Aindri...