Telangana CM KCR expanded his cabinet today. KCR sprang a surprise by confining to new inductions into his cabinet and not resorting to removal of any minister, contrary to the expectations and speculations made by local Telugu and English media.
KCR inducted KT Rama Rao, T Harish Rao, Puvvada Ajay, Gangula Kamalakar, Sabitha Indra Reddy and Sathyavathi Rathod into his cabinet.
There were six vacancies in the KCR’s cabinet and KCR filled all the vacancies on Sunday.
The expansion came as a big relief to health minister Etela Rajender as there were widespread speculations in media that KCR will sack Etela because Etela had expressed open resentment against party leadership recently.
The expansion also came as a relief to minister Ch Malla Reddy, Allola Indrakaran Reddy as there were reports that both would be sacked and replaced by the new ones.
But KCR only confined to filling the existing six vacancies and did not touch any of the incumbent ministers despite the fact that the ministers representing Nizamabad district, Karimnagar district and Adilabad district did not perform well in recent Lok Sabha polls and did not contain BJP in their districts.
KCR has no habit of changing ministers frequently now and then. This expansion indicates that these 18 ministers will continue for the remaining four years of TRS government’s tenure and there is no scope for any new ones to get cabinet berths in future.
KCR gave representation to women ministers for the first time in TRS government. He inducted two women into his cabinet.
