Congress leader Kota Neelima slammed BRS' KT Rama Rao after he alleged that a 50-year-old farmer died by suicide as he faced financial hardship.

BRS working president KT Rama Rao (KTR), and 7 other leaders have been placed under house arrest by the police on Tuesday morning, the party claimed.

Rahul Gandhi wants to save the Constitution, but his own party is flouting it by poaching BRS legislators, alleged BRS leader KT Rama Rao ahead of key local body polls in Telangana. The BRS has been been hit by a series of defections.