Hyderabad: When Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao steps into the Assembly on Monday morning, he will be doing so after a gap of 10 years. Mr Rao was an MLA in the undivided AP Assembly from 1985 to 2004. He was the lone MLA from the Telangana Rashtra Samiti from 2001 to 2004.
In the tie-up with the Congress in 2004, the TRS chief was elected MLA from Siddipet and MP from Karimnagar. On becoming Union minister in UPA-1, he resigned the Siddipet seat without even stepping into the Assembly for a day.
He was an MP from 2004 to 2014. Now he enters the newly formed Telangana Assembly as Chief Minister. But he will have no opportunity to cross swords with his political adversaries in the House such as N Chandrababu Naidu who, with the reorganisation, is now CM of Andhra Pradesh and sits in the AP Assembly, or former chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy who did not contest the elections, or TPCC president Ponnala Lakshmaiah who was defeated in the polls.
Telangana home minister Nayani Narasimha Reddy, who will enter the House, is not a member of either the Assembly or the Legislature but will be accommodated as an MLC in due course. The Telangana Assembly that was formed due to the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh state has 119 MLAs from nine political parties. Bhupalapally MLA Sirikonda Madhusu-dhana Chary will be elected Speaker on June 10.
On Monday, the first day of the new Assembly, senior MLA K. Jana Reddy will act as pro tem Speaker. He will administer the oath to the elected members, including the Council of Ministers.
