Telangana oath-taking ceremony: Mallu Bhatti Vikaramarka to take oath as deputy CM
Telangana CM swearing-in Live Updates: With the Congress trouncing the Bharat Rashtra Samithi in the recently concluded Assembly elections, A Revanth Reddy is set to be sworn in as the chief minister of Telangana today.
Hyderabad: Telangana CM swearing-in Live Updates: With the Congress trouncing the Bharat Rashtra Samithi in the recently concluded Assembly elections, A Revanth Reddy is set to be sworn in as the chief minister of Telangana today.
He will be taking his oath in Hyderabad along with Mallu Bhatti Vikaramarka, who will be sworn in as his deputy. As many as 10 other ministers, namely N Uttam Kumar Reddy, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, Ponnam Prabhakar, Dasari Anasuya, Damodar Raja Narasimha, D Sridhar Babu, Thummala Nageshwara Rao, Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy, Konda Surekha, and Jupally Krishna Rao, will also be sworn in by Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan.
The oath-taking ceremony will also see an attempt to thaw the chill within the INDIA bloc after the Congress’s defeat in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. Reddy, on the insistence of the Congress leadership, spoke to the non- Congress chief ministers of the opposition INDIA bloc, inviting them to his swearing-in ceremony. Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge are likely to be in attendance.
Reddy will be the first Congress Chief Minister of Telangana after it was carved in 2014. Reddy was an easy choice for the Congress with a majority of the newly-elected MLAs favouring him. Just days before his swearing-in, Reddy found himself at the centre of a controversy over his month-old remarks on “Bihar DNA”, inviting criticism not just from the BJP, but also INDIA allies JD(U) and RJD.
