After BRS-backed candidates won key sarpanch and ward member posts in the first phase of gram panchayat polls, TPCC president Mahesh Kumar Goud blamed a ‘secret pact’ between BRS and BJP, defended Congress MLAs, and dismissed politicisation of Messi football match

Hyderabad: After Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS)-backed candidates won a sizeable number of sarpanch and ward member posts in the first phase of gram panchayat polls , TPCC president Mahesh Kumar Goud tried to deflect the blame, coming up with the now familiar Congress rhetoric of a ‘secret pact’ between the BRS and the BJP.

When asked about several family members and close relatives of Congress MLAs and MPs suffering defeats, the TPCC president maintained that the results could not be interpreted as a failure of the MLAs or

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