Nine days after YS Jaganmohan Reddy took over as Andhra Pradesh chief minister, 25 YSRCP legislators were sworn-in as ministers in his cabinet on Saturday.
Andhra Pradesh governor ESL Narasimhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to the ministers including at a simple function at the state secretariat in Velagapudi, Amaravati. Chief Minister Reddy was also present at the event.
#AndhraPradesh: 25 members of council of ministers of the state take oath as ministers, in the presence of Governor ESL Narasimhan and CM @ysjagan, in #Amaravati pic.twitter.com/Jf5ruI4SeT
— NewsMobile (@NewsMobileIndia) June 8, 2019
Earlier on Friday, the new AP chief minister held a meeting of YSRC legislative party, wherein he announced that 25 ministers will take charge on Saturday. He also announced that his cabinet will comprise five deputy Chief Ministers from five different communities – SC, ST, OBC, Minority and Kapu.
The MLAs sworn in as ministers are Dharmana Krishna das, Botsa Satyanarayana, Pamula Pushpa Srivani, Muttamsetti Srinivas Rao, Kurasala Kannababu, Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose, Pinipe Viswaroop, Alla Kalikrishna Srinivas (Alla Nani), Cherakuvada Sriranganatha Raju, Taneti Vanita, Kodali Srivenkateswara Rao (Kodali Nani), Perni Venkatramaiah (Perni Nani), Velampalli Srinivas Rao, Mekathoti Sucharita, Mopidevi Venkata Ramana, Balineni Srinivas Reddy, Adimulapu Suresh, Poboyina Anil Kumar, Mekapati Gowtham Reddy, Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy, K Narayana Swami, Buggana Rajendra Nath, Gunnuru Jayaram, Amzad Basha Shaik Bepari, Malagundla Sankar Narayana.
ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ రాష్ట్ర ముఖ్యమంత్రి శ్రీ వైయస్ జగన్ మోహన్ రెడ్డి కెబినెట్ మంత్రుల ప్రమాణ స్వీకారం. నూతన మంత్రులకు గవర్నర్, ముఖ్యమంత్రి వైయస్ జగన్మోహన్రెడ్డి అభినందనలు.https://t.co/m64e9ulYqF#AndhraPradeshCabinet #APCMYSJagan pic.twitter.com/fErsuEX5YA
— YSR Congress Party (@YSRCParty) June 8, 2019
In the Andhra Pradesh Assembly election, Reddy’s YSRCP got an absolute majority by winning 151 out of 175 seats. His party also won 22 seats out of 25 Lok Sabha seats in the southern state in 2019 Lok Sabha elections simultaneously held with the state Assembly polls.
On May 30, the YSRCP chief took oath as the second chief minister of Andhra Pradesh since its bifurcation.