Responding to the criticism of TPCC Working President Bhatti Vikramarka, Minister K Taraka Rama Rao came down heavily on him for terming Telangana being ruled by KCR family. He hit back at Bhatti saying that India was ruled by descendants of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for several years. Bhatti stated that Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi had sacrificed their lives for the country.
The Minister made the Congress government responsible for killing 370 persons during the agitation for separate Telangana state in 1969