Telangana cabinet expansion likely after June 19

Hyderabad | Saturday | 15th June, 2019

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Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is likely to expand his dozen-member Cabinet after June 19. There is a total of six berths that are lying vacant in Rao’s council of ministers, which could be filled after Telangana Rashtra Samiti state executive meeting on June 19. Including the Chief Minister, there is a total of 12 ministers in Telangana Cabinet which will meet on June 18. After winning the Assembly elections in 2018, chief minister Rao took an oath just with his loyalist Mahamood Ali, keeping the size of the state cabinet at a paltry two. He inducted 10 more ministers in February after drawing a fair share of criticism over the cabinet size..