Hyderabad All that was left after the parliamentary election was dust and now there is a shift of attention in Telangana to probable aspirants for the Kishan, Union Cabinet ministerial posts.
Secunderabad MP-elect G Kishan Reddy, MP-elect Karimnagar Bandi Sanjay and Nizamabad elected MP Dharmapuri Arvind are in the run. That’s just calculation. Kishan Reddy had been an outgoing Modi cabinet member who had served as Union Tourism Minister. In 2019, the BJP had four MPs from Telangana which doubled to eight in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls.
Senior leader and Malkajgiri MP Eatala Rajender is also being seen as a strong contender for the federal cabinet berth. Sources said Itala has lobbied party top brass to either appoint him as state party chairman or offer him a ministerial post. Party national general secretary and Mahabubnagar MP DK Aruna on Wednesday said she was not lobbying for the Union ministerial post. She said her party would decide about it soon enough. She can be another possible occupant of central seat.
According to senior leaders, if any state unit wins ten or more Lok Sabha seats it will get two seats: one at the cabinet level and one as state minister except for special cases like this comment hereinafter discusses. Sources say if Bharatiya Janata Party leadership decides to project their performance better by winning this crucial state of Andhra Pradesh along with two other states in North East India; they may field three candidates from these states. May earn nation nomination from his/her party.
Sources have declined predicting how many seats telugu MPs will get in alliance cabinet: “We don’t know what will end up happening.” According to some leaders, changes in national party unit are dependent upon cabinet seats also. Sometimes receive national nomination from his/her own political party.
The BJP does not usually give cabinet posts to first-time MPs unless under extraordinary circumstances. Kishan Reddy was appointed MoS soon after he was elected as Secunderabad MP in 2019.
Bandaru Dattatreya He was the first BJP MP from Telangana and was appointed central minister in Vajpayee’s ministry in 1998-99.
