Overview
- Multiple outlets citing Congress sources say Mohammed Azharuddin is likely to be sworn in as a minister on October 31, with no formal confirmation from the party or the leader.
- The reported elevation is cast as a bid to reach Muslim voters before the November 11 Jubilee Hills bypoll, where the community forms a sizable share of the electorate.
- If inducted, Azharuddin would become the first Muslim minister in Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s cabinet.
- His inclusion would raise the ministry’s strength to 16, below the statutory cap of 18 in Telangana.
- Telangana Congress chief Bomma Mahesh Kumar Goud declined to confirm the move, saying he could neither confirm nor deny it.