Hyderabad: Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and BRS working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) exchanged allegations and counter-allegations on X on Friday, when the 10th commercial coal block auction of Sravanapalli block was launched by Union coal and mines minister G Kishan Reddy.It started with KTR writing an open letter to Revanth questioning why he has allowed his deputy chief minister to participate in the bidding process, when in 2021, as the TPCC president the latter had demanded the Centre to stop the auction of coal blocks and the transfer of 4 coal blocks to Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL).

KTR asked Revanth why the Congress government wasn’t questioning the Centre on the direct allocation of mines exempted from auctioning to public sector undertakings (PSU) in Gujarat and Odisha by NDA government.