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17 Ministers in Telangana Cabinet: Telangana state's cabinet expansion has been finalized and will take place tomorrow at 11.30 AM and KCR is busy finalizing the ministers to join his cabinet. He is likely to accomodate one MLA from each of the ten undivided districts in the Telangana cabinet. KCR is said to have a mix of old and new faces in the cabinet. The state will have 17 ministers, 15% of the Assembly comprising of 119 MLAs. There are talks that former ministers from Adilabad - Jogu Ramanna and A Indrakaran Reddy. Koppula Eswar or Etala Rajendar are the front runneers from Karimnagar district.

Vemula Prashanth Reddy from Nizamabad is in race for cabinet berth. P Niranjan Reddy created a sensation after he defeated Revanth Reddy and is one among the aspirants. Jagadishwar Reddy and Gutta Sukhander Reddy are the front runners from Nalgonda district. Talasani Srinivas Yadav and T Padma Rao are expecting cabinet post from Hyderabad city. All the speculations would come to an end this evening as there would be an announcement from Chief Minister's office. The oath taking ceremony will take place in Raj Bhavan in the presence of Governor ESL Narasimhan.