Posters of Anumula Revanth Reddy was plastered across Hyderabad city on Thursday ahead of him taking oath as chief minister of Telangana, after the Congress party emerged victorious in the Telangana Assembly polls
The oath taking ceremony of the 56-year-old Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president is scheduled to be held this afternoon at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium here.
Reddy will become the first Congress chief minister of the state that was created in 2014.
Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Deepender Singh Hooda were seen at the Delhi airport today on their way to Hyderabad to attend the oath-taking ceremony of Reddy.
Reddy led his party to victory over the incumbent Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) in the recent Assembly polls where the the Congress won 64 seats out of 119 as against the BRS’s 39.
On Wednesday the Telanagana leader was in Delhi and called on Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
Upon his return to the state, he received a grand welcome from party supporters.
#WATCH | #TelanganaElection2023 | Congress workers pour milk on a poster featuring Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, party MP Rahul Gandhi and state party chief Revanth Reddy as the party continues its lead in the state.
As per the official EC trends, the… pic.twitter.com/IWi4QEz4EQ
— ANI (@ANI) December 3, 2023
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“Congratulations to Telangana’s CM Designate, @revanth_anumula Under his leadership, the Congress govt will fulfil all its guarantees to the people of Telangana and build a Prajala Sarkar,” Rahul Gandhi posted from his official handle on X after meeting him.
Revanth Reddy is seen as a strong critic of outgoing Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and was a face of the Congress poll effort in the state and ran a spirited campaign.
#WATCH | Telangana | Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, party MP Rahul Gandhi and General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra arrive in Hyderabad for the swearing-in ceremony of CM-designate Revanth Reddy.
The CM-designate and state Congress president received… pic.twitter.com/m4A9JNmwXM
— ANI (@ANI) December 7, 2023
Earlier, he won the Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections in 2014 from the Kodangal seat with a vote share of 46.45 percent. In the 2014 Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections, he again won the same seat with a vote share of 39.06 percent before losing the seat in the 2019 Telangana Assembly elections.
#WATCH | Congress MP Deepender S Hooda arrives at Hyderabad, to attend the oath-taking ceremony of Telangana CM designate Revanth Reddy
“Congress’s win in Telangana is a victory of the party’s policies. It is a victory of Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and Kharge… pic.twitter.com/5rVYU8dS6Z
— ANI (@ANI) December 7, 2023
He left TDP and joined Congress in 2017. In June 2021, he was appointed as president of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee replacing N. Uttam Kumar Reddy. Congress won an absolute majority in Telangana for the first time, winning 64 of 119 seats.
Source: ANI
