Revanth Reddy to take oath as Telangana Chief Minister today, Gandhis to attend

Telangana Chief Minister-elect Anumula Revanth Reddy will take oath today following the party’s historical victory in the recently concluded Assembly elections.

Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi, party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, MP Rahul Gandhi and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi will attend the swearing-in ceremony of the 56-year-old leader along with other party leaders at Hyderabad’s Lal Bahadur Stadium at 1:04 pm.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, and his deputy DK Shivakumar are also likely to attend the swearing-in ceremony.

In addition, INDIA alliance leaders MK Stalin, Omar Abdullah, D Raja and Derek O’ Brien will attend the oath-taking ceremony.

Though the Congress party, which wrested power in Telangana from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in the recent Assembly elections, has not made formal announcements, party sources said at least 5-6 ministers will be sworn in today.

The likely ministerial candidates to be sworn in include Bhatti Vikramarka, who is expected to get the revenue portfolio.

Other leaders who are expected to get a ministerial berth include Seethakka, who may be getting panchayat and SC/ST welfare, Uttam Kumar, who is expected to get the Finance portfolio, Ponnam Prabhakar, Sridhar Babu, and Thummala Nageswara Rao.

The Congress leadership named Revanth Reddy as the leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) and the next Chief Minister of Telangana on Tuesday. He was the party’s face in Telangana and is being credited for the remarkable victory in the state.

Telangana, India’s youngest state, which was born out of the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in 2014, went into polls on November 30 and results were declared on December 3 in which the grand old party secured 64 out of the total 119 seats.