Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who led his party to almost three-fourths majority in the December 7 Assembly elections, was sworn-in on Thursday as Chief Minister of Telangana state for a second straight term at 1.24 pm, an auspicious time according to the chief priest of the Yadadri Lakshmi Narasimhaswamy temple.
The ceremony was completed in just six minutes, after which priests from the Vemulawada temple blessed Mr Rao and offered him prasadam.
The oath-taking ceremony was attended by all new MLAs of the TRS, including the Chief Minister's son K.T. Rama Rao, daughter K. Kavitha, Majlis-e-Ittahadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi, senior bureaucrats, police officials, former Assembly speaker S. Madhusdhana Chari and families of the newly elected MLAs.
Hyderabad police made tight security arrangements and imposed traffic restrictions around Raj Bhavan in view of the swearing-in ceremony.
Mr Rao was unanimously elected the leader of the TRS Legislature Party by the newly-elected MLAs on Wednesday. The TRS won 88 seats in the 119-member state Assembly, trouncing the Congress-led People’s Front, which ended up with only 21.
