Overview

• At a Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Yatra commemoration at Charminar, the Telangana chief minister accused BRS of acting as the BJP's B‑Team.
• He claimed a secret understanding in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, asserting that 21 percent of BRS votes indirectly benefited the BJP.
• Warning of a repeat in the upcoming Jubilee Hills by-election, he urged voters to reject what he called efforts to split the opposition vote.
• During the event, he presented the Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award to Salman Khurshid and praised the Gandhi family's contributions.
• He called for a constitutional amendment to let 21-year-olds contest assembly elections, invoking Rajiv Gandhi's move to lower the voting age to 18.