After Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao called Congress President Rahul Gandhi the "biggest buffoon" in India, Congress leader Anand Sharma said, "The choice of the word is distasteful. KCR is...an ungrateful person." He said that instead of "thanking" the Congress leadership which "withstood all pressure to create Telangana", KCR "behaved in a manner which is unbecoming of a chief minister."