It was a smooth sailing into the 25-crew Cabinet, picked by Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and sworn in on Monday, for the three Ministers and three new faces from the Godavari region.
Former Social Welfare Minister Pinipe Viswaroop, former Backward Classes Welfare Minister Ch. Venu Gopala Krishna, and former Women and Child Welfare Minister Taneti Vanita have been rewarded with another two-and-a-half year term in the State Cabinet. New faces Dadisetti Raja (Tuni), K. Nageswara Rao (Tanuku) and K. Satyanarayana (Tadepalligudem) were given an opportunity to prove their mettle in the run-up to the next Assembly elections.
Erstwhile East and West Godavari districts each got three Ministerial berths in the new Cabinet. Unlike other districts where protests are being witnessed after the local MLAs were stripped of their Cabinet posts, the six MLAs enjoyed a rousing reception after their elevation and have received unanimous support from their party colleagues in the Godavari region.
