Khammam, Feb. 8 -- Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu on Sunday urged voters to question the track record of the BRS before casting their votes in the municipal elections, asking why people should support a party that, he alleged, looted the state for ten years and pushed it into massive debt.

Addressing a public meeting after a massive rally in Wyra Municipality in Khammam district, he said the previous BRS government failed to provide even a single house or house site to the poor during its decade-long rule. In contrast, he said, the Congress government had revived the Indiramma housing scheme to ensure dignity and self-respect for the poor. He stated that Rs 5 lakh was being spent on each house, with 4.5 lakh houses...