KCR INDUCTS 10 MORE MINISTERS IN HIS CABINET
HYDERABAD: Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Tuesday expanded his cabinet by inducting 10 ministers, including six first-timers, more than two months after his Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) returned to power for a second successive term with a huge mandate in the state assembly elections held on December 7.
Governor of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh ESL Narasimhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new ministers at a 20-minute ceremony at Raj Bhavan. The total strength of the Telangana Cabinet has now gone up to 12. The TRS chief took oath as the chief minister, along with senior legislator Mohammad Mahmud Ali, on December 13, two days after the declaration of assembly results.
Four of the 10 new ministers Etela Rajender from Huzurabad, G Jagadeesh Reddy from Suryapet, Talasani Srinivas Yadav from Sanathnagar and Allola Indrakaran Reddy from Nirmal held Cabinet posts in the previous tenure of the TRS government between 2014 and 2018.
The six other inductees are Singireddy Niranjan Reddy (Vanaparthi), Koppula Eswar (Dharmapuri), Errabelli Dayakar Rao (Palakurthi), Vemula Prasanth Reddy (Balkonda, V Srinivas Goud (Mahabubnagar) and Chamakura Malla Reddy (Medchal).
KCR’S son KT Rama Rao and nephew and Siddipet MLA T Harish Rao, who held important portfolios of information technology and irrigation respectively in the previous Cabinet, were left out this time. KT Rama Rao, who took over as TRS working president soon after the assembly elections, has been entrusted with the responsibility of leading the party to victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.