Rahul Gandhi is the biggest buffoon, says K Chandrashekar Rao

HYDERABAD: Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday courted controversy by calling Congress president Rahul Gandhi the 'biggest buffoon in the country'. Addressing newsmen soon after he recommended dissolution of Telangana assembly, Rao said: "Rahul Gandhi goes and hugs (Prime Minister) Modi in Parliament and winks at his partymen.""If he (Rahul) comes to campaign for Congress in Telangana, it will be all the more good for TRS which is anyway bound to win," Rao said, adding that neither Rahul nor PM Modi will be able to stop TRS victory in the state. " KCR is one who does not get scared, either of Rahul Gandhi or Modi," he said.Training his guns on the Congress chief, Rao said: "Rahul Gandhi inherited his legacy in Delhi. He is the legal heir of the Congress sultanate." Referring to the reorganisation of states on linguistic basis in the 1950s, Rao said: "In 1956, then PM Jawaharlal Nehru destroyed Telangana."When asked whether he was closer to BJP, Rao said as chief minister he had to meet PM Modi. "This is a constitutional requirement... This is for official purposes," he said.KCR said there would be no truck with BJP in the assembly polls. "TRS is a 100% secular party. There is no question of aligning with BJP. In fact, BJP president Amit Shah himself has also said he would not want to have anything to do with TRS," he said.Describing Congress as 'villain no. 1' for Telangana, Rao said: "Congress says if elections are held the state will be rid of KCR who is a misfortune. Let me say it is Congress which is the greatest misfortune that has befallen on the state."Congress strikes back, calls KCR 'modern-day Tughlaq'Congress' Telangana incharge Ram Chandra Khuntia shot back at K Chandrashekhar Rao saying it was he, not Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who was the "buffoon". Rao, popularly called KCR, had referred to Rahul as a "buffoon" during a press conference in Hyderabad on Thursday.Congress, in a sharp retort against the caretaker CM, said he was a "Modern-day Mohammed Bin Tughlaq", in an apparent dig at his sudden decision to dissolve the Telangana assembly on Thursday. Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala called him a "dictator" and a "BJP stooge".