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Hyderabad, Jan.17 (PMI): The first session of the second Assembly of Telangana State has
begun here on Thursday with the swearing-in of the newly-elected Members.
Pro-tem Speaker Mumtaz Ahmed Khan administered the oath of office and secrecy
to the elected Members of the House. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao was
the first to take the oath followed by lady members and then male members in
alphabetical order of their names.
The present Assembly is
special in several ways. The session started 36 days after the election of the
Members. Probably this was the first time that the session commenced after a
long time after the election results were announced. As many as 76 MLAs of the
first Assembly were re-elected to the present House, which consists of a total
of 119 members. It has 25 first-times elected MLAs.
Leader of the House K. Chandrashekhar Rao is the senior-most
Member in the Assembly. He was elected to the House for eight times. He was
followed by other senior MLAs like Errabelli Dayakar Rao, Redya Naik and Protem
Speaker Mumtaz Ahmed Khan. The ruling party members like T. Harish
Rao. Etala Rajender and Koppula Eeshwar were elected to the House for six
consecutive times. Congress MLA from Kothagudem Vanama Venkateswara Rao (73) is
the oldest Member of the House. The youngest Member is also from the Congress.
The party’s woman MLA from Yellandu Haripriya Naik was elected to the
House for the first time at the age of 29 years.
Party-wise strength of the members is:
The ruling TRS has 88 members, the main Opposition Congress 19,
MIM seven, TTDP two, the BJP and RPI one each, besides an
independent MLA. Two sitting MPs of the ruling TRS Balka Suman and Ch Malla
Reddy contested the Assembly elections and won from Chennur and Medchal
Assembly segments respectively. They later resigned from their MP
posts. Similarly, two MLCs, one each from TRS and Congress were also
elected to the present Assembly. They are: P. Mahender Reddy and Komatireddy
Rajagopal Reddy. The two have been elected from Munugodu and Kodangal Assembly
constituencies respectively (PMI)
