Trusted Sources in the government tells us that Telangana Chief Minister K Chandra Sekhar Rao is all set to do his first cabinet expansion on 17th of this month. Telangana government can have 18 ministers and the current cabinet has 12. KCR is expected to fill up the remaining 6 berths in this expansion. There are several aspirants in this expansion from those who is with the party from several years to those who joined it recently.
Departments like Roads and Buildings, Women and Child Welfare, Municipal, Power, Industries etc do not have ministers. Along with these, KCR will also make changes to other existing ministries and as a part of it, some of the existing minister may have to go for a change of ministries.
Here are the probables in the cabinet:
Mahabubnagar – Jupally Krishna Rao/Srinivas Goud/Lakshma Reddy – One
Khammam – Tummala Nageswara Rao – Almost confirmed
Warangal – Konda Surekha/Chandulal – One
Karimnagar – Koppula Eshwar – Almost Confirmed
Adilabad – Indrakaran Reddy/Kovva Lakshmi – One
Nizamabad – Gampa Govardhan/Enugu Ravinder Reddy/Bigala Ganesh Gupta – One
Hyderabad – Ramulu Naik in ST Quota – May be
If KCR will accommodate those who did not get cabinet berth with nominated posts.
