Telangana's first cabinet has three members of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's family and no women. Mr KCR was sworn in this morning along with 11 ministers in the presence of enthusiastic workers of his party, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), and several dignitaries. However, Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu, tipped to lead the residual Andhra Pradesh, stayed away.
Telangana's first Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao unfurled the national flag and reviewed a colourful parade here to mark the formation of India's 29th state.
Politics is where there are no long-term friends or foes. There was a time when Telangana BJP leader Kishan Reddy was a close confidant of BJP’s national leader and union minister Venkaiah Naidu. When Venkaiah Naidu was the national-level president of BJP, Kishan Reddy worked as the national president of BJP’s yuva morcha.
Jai Kumar is a resident of Uppal in Hyderabad and his wife, who is a Central government employee, hails from Kadapa. But on Monday, when the State is bifurcated and ushers in many changes, they feel it remains the same.
YSR Congress party, which strongly opposed the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, has also decided to celebrate the formation of the Telangana State on Monday in all the 10 districts of the State.
The Telugu Desam Party leaders are likely to skip the swearing-in ceremony of TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao as the first Chief Minister of Telangana.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi, which had just three MLAs more than the absolute majority in the State Assembly received unusual boost on Sunday, when two legislators of Bahujan Samaj Party from Telangana region decided to merge with the TRS.
About a half day before his swearing in as Chief Minister of Telangana State, TRS Chief K Chnadrashekhar Rao on Sunday went into a huddle with his close associates of the party.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao appears to be have decided to give a damn to the criticism that he is promoting family rule in the party and the government.
Most probably no, say TRS members. Well, the reason cited by them is that Chandra Babu Naidu hasn’t been formally sworn in as the Chief Minister.
The Congress party, which has already been in a beleaguered state following its rout in the recent elections, is crying foul over the attempts of the Centre and the AP governments to change the name of Shamshabad airport as NTR Airport.
This was the question media persons asked Governor ESL Narasimhan when he addressed his last press conference as the head of Andhra Pradesh, which would be split into two on June 2.
Till last year, the Andhra Pradesh Formation Day used to be celebrated on November 1, as the State came into existence on this day in 1956.
