Revanth Reddy takes oath as Telangana CM; Bhatti Vikramarka as Dy CM
Reddy has become the first Congress CM of the State that was created in 2014.
Anumula Revanth Reddy takes oath as Telangana CM (PTI)
CHENNAI: Anumula Revanth Reddy took oath as the Chief Minister of Telangana at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium in Hyderabad on Thursday.
Governor Soundarajan also administered the oath of office to Gaddam Prasad Kumar as the Speaker of the Telangana Legislative Assembly.
Meanwhile, Bhatti Vikramarka took oath as the Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana.
Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge, and Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi who arrived in Hyderabad early this morning were also present for the swearing-in ceremony.
Party leader Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi were also present on the stage.
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar also reached Hyderabad to take part in the occasion.
Ahead of the swearing-in ceremony DK Shivakumar said "We will implement the guarantees. We are committed to whatever we have spoken." Folk artists performed outside Hyderabad's LB stadium ahead of the oath-taking ceremony of Revanth Reddy as Telangana CM.
Earlier, posters of Revanth Reddy were plastered across the Hyderabad city ahead of him taking oath as the State CM.
Reddy has become the first Congress CM of the State that was created in 2014.
Reddy led his party to victory over the incumbent Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) in the recent Telangana Assembly polls where the the Congress won 64 seats out of 119 as against the BRS's 39.