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Reelected MLAs take oath

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Reelected MLAs take oath
Reelected MLAs take oath

Assembly Speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Monday administered the oath of office to 12 reelected MLAs from Telangana region who had won the by-elections with impressive margins.

The MLAs, eleven from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi and one Bharatiya Janata Party were sworn in by Mr Kiran Kumar Reddy in his Chambers at 11 am.

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Huzurabad MLA Eatala Rajender, who has been re-elected leader of TRS Legislature Party, took oath first.  Siddipet MLA T Harish Rao, the deputy leader in House, followed him. BJP MLA Endala Laxminarayana also took oath along with TRS MLAs.

Earlier, the TRS MLAs gathered at the Gun Park opposite Assembly to pay tributes at the Telangana Martyrs' Memorial before proceeding to take oath.

TRS chief K Chandrasekhara Rao had on Sunday convened a meeting to select the Legislature party leader.The meeting unanimously elected Huzurabad MLA Eatala Rajender as legislature party leader and Siddipet MLA T Harish Rao, the deputy leader in the House.

Koppula Eashwar (Dharmapuri) was named the secretary and E Ravinder Reddy (Yellareddy) the Whip at the meeting.