Telangana Congress chief Mahesh Kumar Goud said former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his son KT Rama Rao were responsible for tapping the phones of hundreds of Congress leaders, including his own. He suspected the Congress tally fell from the expected 90 to 63 in the November 2023 elections because KCR and the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) used political intelligence gathered illegally against them.

BRS working president KT Rama Rao has served a legal notice to Mr Goud, alleging that the state Congress chief was making serious allegations without any proof and demanded an unconditional apology.