Soon after newly elected Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy took oath on Wednesday, he got down to work approving the “six guarantees” the Congress had made in the run-up to the elections, reports The Indian Express.
Revanth, who has been elected from the Kodangal seat, signed two files on his first day. While one pertained to the pre-poll guarantees, the other one was regarding employment for a differently-abled woman, T K Rajini. During his campaigning in Achampet in Nagarkurnool district, he had promised a job to her. Rajini will be allotted a job at a district collector’s office wherever she chooses.
The government also decided to release a white paper on the state’s finances, reports PTI.
Minister D Sridhar Babu, briefing reporters after the first meeting of the state cabinet, presided by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, said that with a view to releasing a white paper on the state’s finances, the cabinet has asked the officials to furnish information on the expenditure made by the previous government from 2014 to December 7, 2023 on all departments in the state government. They have also been asked to furnish the purposes for which the expenditure was incurred.
He said that all the two poll guarantees implementation would begin on December 9, on the occasion of Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
The two poll guarantees include: Free travel in state-run RTC buses for women and enhancing the insurance amount to Rs 10 lakh under the Rajiv Arogyasri health scheme, according to the minister.
“The remaining guarantees, we are trying to secure the data which is required to implement and we are here, for the people of Telangana, all the guarantees in literal sense will be implemented in a time framework and in our five year term, we will implement all the manifesto absolutely 100 per cent,” he said, as quoted by PTI.
The newly-elected MLAs would take oath on December 9, after the Governor appoints a pro-tem Speaker, which will be followed by the election of the Speaker and later the Governor’s address.
Revanth Reddy was sworn-in as the Chief Minister of the state on Thursday. Earlier in the day, even before the swearing-in ceremony commenced, the fence outside Pragathi Bhavan was removed. It will be renamed Jyotiba Phule Praja Bhavan and the new CM will hold regular praja darbars here, the first of which is scheduled for Friday. This was also a promise made by the CM, where he had said that “prajala rajyam (people’s government)” will prevail in the state if the Congress is voted to power.
Along with the CM, the state’s first Dalit Deputy CM, Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu, was also sworn in along with Revanth and 10 other Cabinet ministers at the L B Stadium in Hyderabad. Several Congress and other leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, were also present at the event.