In a statement, Kalvakuntla Kavitha, a politician in the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) party and daughter of Telangana's state chief, said that Rahul Gandhi is not a 'Babbar Sher' (a lion), he is a 'paper tiger', because everything he learns comes to him from speeches prepared for him in advance.
The criticism came days after Gandhi accused the Telangana government of corruption at a election rally as the clock starts ticking for the Telangana State Assembly elections.
“When you dreamed about Telangana state, you thought people's rule would happen in the state. But it is now evident that Telangana is under the rule of one family. The whole control of Telangana state is in the hands of one family and corruption in the state is the highest in the country," Gandhi stated while addressing his party workers during his political campaign.