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 Monday promised a corruption-free and transparent government with its top priority to work for the welfare of the poor and weaker sections of society.
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.
Andhra Pradesh's chief minister designate N. Chandrababu Naidu Monday congratulated K. Chandrasekhara Rao, who took oath as the first chief minister of Telangana.
Following are the major events in the history of Telangana, which Monday came into being as 29th state in India.
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.