According to sources Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao is likely to expand his cabinet early next month and bring back his son K.T. Rama Rao and nephew T. harish rao. Meanwhile Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leaders say Chandrashekhar Rao may undertake the much-awaited expansion in the first week of July to fill six vacancies.
Furthermore kcr, as the TRS chief is popularly known, had left out both Rama Rao and harish rao in the first cabinet expansion in February, nearly two months after the TRS retained power with a landslide victory. Apparently Rama Rao, popular as ktr among his followers, was the virtual number two in kcr's earlier cabinet, holding the key portfolios of industry, information technology, municipal administration and urban development.
Further following the TRS victory in the Assembly elections held in December last year, ktr was appointed as party's Working President by kcr, who was eyeing a crucial role at the Centre. Hence this was seen as preparation for ktr's ascension to the post of Chief Minister in the event of his father shifting to delhi.TRS sources said kcr will have a full-fledged Finance Minister before the budget session of state legislature, likely to begin after July 15. Moreover in the previous cabinet, Etela Rajender was holding finance but this time he has been made Minister for health and Family Welfare.
