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After recoding a stunning win Congress leader and state chief Revanth Reddy took oath as Telangana Chief Minister.Nine others also took oath with him.
Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka has been appointed as the Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana and took oath along with the ministers and the Chief Minister-elect.
The oath was administered by Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan at Hyderabad’s LB stadium. Reddy thus becomes the first Congress chief minister of the state that was created in 2014.
Later on Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy, PPonnam Prabhakar, Surekha Konda and Anasuya Seethakka took oath as ministers in Telangana cabinet. Others include – Tummala Nageswara Rao and Jupally Krishna Rao
Reddy thus becomes the first Congress chief minister of the state that was created in 2014.
#WATCH | Telangana CM Revanth Reddy arrives at the Dr BR Ambedkar Telangana Secretariat in Hyderabad pic.twitter.com/4ofwtWVppr
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Reddy led his party to victory over the incumbent Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) in the recent Assembly polls where the the Congress won 64 seats out of 119 as against the BRS’s 39.
Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, party MP Rahul Gandhi and General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were also in Hyderabad for the swearing-in ceremony.
Congress MLAs along with Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivakumar also attended the ceremony.
Posters of Anumula Revanth Reddy was plastered across Hyderabad city on Thursday ahead of him taking oath as chief minister of Telangana, after the Congress party emerged victorious in the Telangana Assembly polls.
