Hyderabad, May 30 : Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and Chief Minister-designate K Chandrasekhar Rao is yet to finalise the list of members to be inducted into his cabinet.
Sources say that KCR was looking at two options of having a symbolic six-member cabinet swearing-in on June 2 along with him at Raj Bhavan. The second option is of inducting 14 ministers in the first phase. In both the cases, KCR will expand the cabinet after the conclusion of first session of Telangana Assembly.
KCR is likely to send the list of ministers to be administerd oath on June 2 to Governor ESL Narasimhan by Sunday evening. The new government will be taking oath on June 2 at 8.15 AM. The TRS leaders who are all set to be part of KCR cabinet include Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, T Harish Rao, Jupally Krishna Rao and Papa Rao (MLAs) and MLCs – Swamy Goud and Mohammed Mahmood Ali.
According to sources, KCR has offered two cabinet berths to Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen. However, the MIM is yet to respond to his offer.
Meanwhile, Karimnagar MP B Vinod Kumar has been tipped to be made the Leader of TRS Parliamentary Party. INN