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17 new members in A. P. Cabinet

Special Correspondent

YSR rewards loyalists

HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy inducted 17 new members into his Cabinet on Thursday and reshuffled portfolios of several senior Ministers.

. APCC chief K. Keshava Rao, and at least seven Ministers could not attend the oath-taking function.

The Ministers are Dharmana Prasada Rao, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Kanna Lakshminarayana, Konathala Ramakrishna, Jakkampudi Ramamohan Rao, D.S. Redya Naik and Pinnamaneni Venkateswara Rao.

Almost all the Opposition leaders, barring G. Kishan Reddy, BJP MLA, stayed away. With the expansion, the number of Council of Ministers went up to 41.

The Andhra region accounted for 18 berths, followed by 17 from Telangana and six from Rayalaseema. Guntur district has four Ministers while Medak, Krishna and East Godavari have three each.

Dr. Reddy made extensive changes in the subjects of the incumbent Ministers as many of them were holding multiple portfolios ever since the resignation of six TRS Ministers and M. Satyanarayana Rao of the Congress later.

He rewarded his loyalists with key portfolios like housing, animal husbandry and infrastructure development, which Dr. Reddy declared earlier as the growth engines of the economy.

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