Hyderabad, April 24 -- Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy said that Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chiefsupremo K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) "mortgaged" the Secunderabad Lok Sabha seat to the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) to secure bail for his daughter and MLC K Kavitha, who is currently under judicial custody in the Delhi liquor policy case.

The Chief Minister meant to say that the BRS changed its candidate to ex-minister and MLA Padma Rao in connivance with the BJP. Revanth was addressing a street-corner meeting in Secunderabad on Wednesday during the filing of nomination papers by Congress Secunderabad Lok Sabha candidate Danam Nagender.

Nagender won the Khairatabad Assembly seat on a BRS ticket in last year's Assembly election. He ...