Telangana CM KCR has appointed 2 Deputy CMs, and has kept several important portfolios, including welfare, with him.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday appointed 2 members of his cabinet, Mohammad Mahmood Ali and Dr T Rajaiah, as Deputy Chief Ministers.
While Mahmood Ali belongs to the Muslim minority community, Dr Rajaiah is a prominent Dalit leader.
With their appointments, KCR has fulfilled his promise of giving Deputy CM posts to a Muslim and a Dalit.
Mahmood Ali will also hold the portfolio of Revenue, Relief & Rehabilitation, ULC, Stamps & Registration. And Dr Rajaiah will have the Medical & Health portfolio.
Meanwhile, KCR has kept several important portfolios including welfare with him.
Besides the GAD, KCR holds the portfolios of SC, ST, BC and Minorities Welfare, Municipal Administration & Urban Development, Energy, Coal and all other portfolios not allotted to other ministers.
1. Nayani Narsimha Reddy got the portfolios of Home, Prisons, Fire Services, Sainik Welfare, Labour & Employment.
2. Etela Rajender got Finance & Planning, Small Savings, State Lotteries, Consumer Affairs, Legal Metrology, Civil Supplies.
3. Pocharam Srinivas Reddy got Agriculture, Horticulture, Sericulture, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Dairy Development Corp. and Seeds Corporation.
4. KCR's nephew T Harish Rao has been allotted Irrigation, Marketing & Legislative Affairs
5. KCR's son K Tarakarama Rao got Panchayat Raj and Information Technology.
6. T Padma Rao Goud has been given Excise & Prohibition.
7. P Mahender Reddy has been given the Transport portfolio.
8. Jogu Ramanna has been allotted the Forest & Environment portfolio.
9. G Jagadish Reddy has been given Education.
(INN)