KCR takes oath as CM of Telangana
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has rewarded Mohammad Mahmood Ali once again for his loyalty by inducting him into his cabinet
HYDERABAD: K. Chandrashekhar Rao, who led the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) to a landslide victory in Assembly elections, on Thursday took oath as the Chief Minister of Telangana for a second term in a row.
Governore.s.l.narasimhanadministered the oath of ofice and secrecy to the TRS leader at 1.25 a.m. at a ceremony held at Raj Bhavan.
Mohammed Mahmood Ali, a member of Telangana Legislative Council, also took oath as a Minister. Ali, who was Deputy Chief Minister in the previous cabinet, is likely to retain the same post.
KCR, as Rao is popularly known, took oath in Telugu while Ali completed the formalities in Urdu.
TRS leaders in the audience raised slogans of “Long live KCR” and “Jai Telangana” as the 64-year-old inished taking the oath.
KCR is likely to expand his cabinet next week. The TRS retained power by winning 88 seats in the 119-member Assembly.
KCR’S wife Shobha Rao, son K. T. Rama Rao, daughter K. Kavitha, nephew T. Harish Rao and other family members attended the ceremony.
After the swearing-in, a group of priests blessed KCR and presented him ‘prasadam’.
KCR had taken oath as Telangana’s irst Chief Minister on June 2, 2014, the day when Telangana came into being as India’s 29th state.
He went for a dissolution of the Assembly on September 6 this year, eight months before its term was to end. His gamble for early polls paid rich dividends.
Newly elected legislators of TRS, top party leaders, All India Majlis-e-ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi, Chief Secretary S.K. Joshi, Director General of Police Mahender Reddy and senior oficials attended the ceremony.
Telangana Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President K. Chandrashekhar Rao has rewarded Mohammad Mahmood Ali once again for his loyalty by inducting him into his cabinet.
Ali, a member of the Telangana Legislative Council, was the only Minister to take oath along with Rao on Thursday.
Ali, 66, has been with KCR since the latter loated TRS to revive the movement for separate Telangana state in 2001.
The most recognisable Muslim face of TRS, Ali served as Deputy Chief Minister in KCR’S previous cabinet. There were two deputies to KCR, the other being Kadiyam Srihari, a Dalit leader.