Congress working president Revanth Reddy termed TRS Working President K.T. Rama Rao a ‘bacchagadu’ and faulted him for calling their party senior leader and AICC former general secretary V. Hanumantha Rao a ‘buffoon’ when he questioned the TRS government about students’ problems and the goof-up in Intermediate results.

The NSUI and Youth Congress activists launched 48-hour deeksha against the irregularities in the Inter results at Gandhi Bhavan on Thursday. Revanth Reddy expressed his solidarity with the deeksha. Speaking on the occasion, he alleged that Rama Rao had intentionally changed the organisation which had been taking the tender for the Inter exams usually and given it to Globarena only because it was known to his brother-in-law.

He also questioned why had the government not taken any action against those guilty in the Eamcet leakage issue. He also asked why KTR is maintaining silence in the issue relating to Magnetic Infotech, owned by the father-in-law of one of KTR’s friends.

Yesterday, Congress senior leader and AICC former general secretary V. Hanumantha Rao and KTR were involved in a verbal duel after the former challenged the latter to come to the village goddess Peddamma Thalli’s temple at Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad and swear that he had no links with the Globarena Technologies which was given the tender to process the Inter results, which were ridden with errors.

With many of the students, who pinned hopes on getting good marks and percentage, finding themselves getting poor marks and many more failing in the examination, over 24 students committed suicide. The goof-up in the exams drew much criticism from various quarters and the government ordered for a re-evaluation of the exam papers, which is underway. In this backdrop, the Opposition leaders reminded that Globarena Technologies had a tainted background.