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Andhra Pradesh gets largest share in
reshuffle
Sunday October 28, 2012 09:07:41 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Andhra
Pradesh, a crucial state electorally for the Congress, Sunday got
the maximum representation of six in the rejig of the council of
ministers, with five new faces and one elevated to the cabinet
rank.
M.M. Pallam Raju, a Congress MP from coastal Andhra, has been
elevated to cabinet rank from being minister of state in the
defence ministry. He is the new human resource development
minister replacing Kapil Sibal.
Telugu actor-turned politician K. Chiranjeevi, who merged his
Praja Rajyam Party's 18 MLAs with the Congress last year, has
become minister of state with independent charge.
The Congress fortunes in the southern state have dipped in recent
years with the breakaway YSR Congress party of Jaganmohan Reddy
denting its cadre and support base.
Jaganmohan had parted ways with the Congress a year ago after his
aspiration to be the state chief minister following his father and
former CM Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's death in an air crash in 2009.
Others to be inducted as ministers of state are Kotla Jaya Surya
Prakash Reddy from Kurnool, Sarve Satyanarayana from Malkajgiri,
Porika Balram Naik from Mahabubabad, and Killi Kruparani from
Srikakulam.
The three regions of the state -- Telangana, Coastal Andhra and
Rayalseema -- have been given representation.
The state has been in the throes of a sustained and often violent
popular movement for the creation of a separate state of Telangana.
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