It’s five days since A. Revanth Reddy took oath as the Chief Minister of Telangana, but he is yet to get his full team of officials in the Chief Minister’s Office.
There are reports that senior IAS officer V. Seshadri has been appointed as the Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, but orders to this effect are yet to be issued. Mr. Seshadri is, however, attending all the review meetings that are being conducted by the new Chief Minister.
The CMO, which is considered a mini-Secretariat in itself needs at at least one Principal Secretary and three Secretary-level officials to handle the day-to-day affairs of the Chief Minister. Other than Mr. Seshadri, the CMO is nearly empty barring full-timers Smitha Sabharwal and Priyanka Verghese continuing in their posts as CMO Secretary and Officer on Special Duty to the Chief Minister respectively.
