In a reaction to the formation of a new Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) party to replace the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) by Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Dasara, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the former was guided by “ tantriks” and soothsayers.
“TRS was formed to realise Telangana sentiment. Rao betrayed Telangana and changed TRS’s name to Bharatiya Rashtra Samiti (BRS) on the advice of tantriks,” Ms. Sitharaman said in a statement.
She further said that when the State was formed, Mr. Rao had talked about women’s empowerment “but for four years from 2014 to 2018, there was not a single woman Minister in the TRS government”.
