Overview

• G Vivek Venkataswamy, Adluri Laxman Kumar and Vakiti Srihari took their oaths at Raj Bhavan under Governor Jishnu Dev Varma in Hyderabad.
• The new appointees hail from the Mala, Madiga and Mudiraj communities to strengthen representation of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes.
• With the latest inductions, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s council now has 15 of the 18 sanctioned ministers.
• Dornakal MLA Ramachandru Naik was named Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly as part of the reshuffle.
• AICC in-charge Meenakshi Natarajan and TPCC president Mahesh Kumar Goud have met excluded aspirants to address their concerns and maintain party unity.