Telangana CM Expands Cupboard, Three Ministers Sworn-In | India Information
Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Sunday expanded his Cupboard by inducting three ministers.
G. Vivek Venkataswamy, Adluri Laxman Kumar, and Vakiti Srihari have been sworn in as ministers by Governor Jishnu Dev Varma at Raj Bhavan.
Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, his Cupboard colleagues, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president Mahesh Kumar Goud, and senior officers attended the ceremony.
Vivek took oath in English whereas the remaining two have been sworn in Telugu.
That is the primary enlargement within the Cupboard, which was fashioned on December 7, 2023, with the swearing-in of the Chief Minister and 11 ministers.
The long-delayed enlargement befell after the All India Congress Committee (AICC) cleared the names of three ministers.
Although there are vacancies within the Cupboard, the celebration management determined to maintain three posts vacant. The state can have a most of 18 ministers, together with the Chief Minister.
Vivek Venkataswamy, a former MP and son of former Union Minister G. Venkataswamy, and Authorities Whip Adluri Laxman are from the Scheduled Castes, whereas Srihari is from the Backward Lessons. Ramachandru Naik is a tribal MLA.
Venkataswamy, an industrialist, had give up the BJP to hitch Congress a couple of weeks earlier than the 2023 Meeting elections.
He was elected to Parliament in 2009 from the Peddapalli constituency. He later joined TRS (now BRS) to place strain on the Congress over the demand for statehood for Telangana.
After the Telangana Invoice was handed within the Parliament in 2014, he returned to Congress.
He once more returned to the TRS in 2016. In 2019, he resigned as advisor to the Telangana authorities and give up the ruling celebration after he was denied a ticket to contest from the Peddapalli Lok Sabha seat. He joined the BJP, which he give up once more in November 2023 to return to Congress.
He was elected to the Meeting from Chennur constituency in Mancherial district in 2023, defeating sitting MLA Balka Suman of BRS.
Adluri Laxman Kumar is a senior Congress chief and first-time MLA from Dharmapuri in Jagitial district.
Srihari, who started his political profession as a Youth Congress chief, has additionally been related to Congress for over three a long time. He was elected to the Meeting from the Makthal Meeting constituency in Narayanpet district.
Earlier, the Chief Minister additionally introduced that Ramachandra Naik can be appointed as Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Meeting. He’s an MLA from Dornakal constituency in Mahabubabad district.
