Responding to Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy's statements earlier, TRS president KCR has lashed out with statistics. He spoke to the media and elaborated that Telangana region has its own power supply and that Andhra and Telangana will return each others favors over time.

Throwing virtual daggers at the CM, KCR alleged that Kiran Kumar Reddy's statements are lies and untruths. He pointed out that both Guntur and Telangana have high courts, constructed in 1964 and 1919 respectively.

Hyderabad has only 15,000 advocates, he noted, as he prepares himself to challenge the CM in a debate.

He said that Telangana people have accepted Hyderabad as common capital for 10 years based on humanitarian grounds. 'Andhra people can carry on their work here until a new capital is established. I never said those who are born and brought up here are not Telanganites. The CM can also run a tiffin center here if he wants,' KCR shot out.

The leader continued that Kiran Kumar Reddy did not speak in a fashion befitting a chief minister. He went on to elaborate that farmers in Telangana have nothing fear as they have sources of electricity and that the CM is misleading them.

KCR further clarified that he never asked Andhra government employees to leave the new state. He said that he would like to speak all of this with the CM in person.

(AW: Sruthi)