K Kavitha, the TRS leader and parliamentarian, has reiterated what K Chandrasekhar Rao had said on the day the Telangana Assembly was dissolved a few months ago. The Chief Minister famously dubbed Rahul Gandhi a buffoon.

"The CM had a name for Rahul. The definition says that a person who does silly things is called buffoon. Whole nation watched when he broke all Parliamentary practices and hugged the Prime Minister, everybody felt it was a silly move," Kavitha today said as per a news agency.

Her remarks have to be seen in the context of Congress trying to project Rahul as a consensus prime ministerial candidate of the anti-BJP forces. Given that KCR is dead against Congress, TRS is only expected to up the ante against Rahul in the run up to the 2019 polls.