TRS leader Mohammad Mahmood Ali was on Thursday made the Home Minister of Telangana by Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President K Chandrashekhar Rao. Ali, a member of the Telangana Legislative Council, was the only Minister to take oath along with Rao on Thursday.
According to a statement from Chief Minister's Office on Thursday night, KCR has allotted him the Home portfolio. Ali was holding Revenue portfolio in KCR's previous cabinet. It was immediately not clear if Ali will be Deputy Chief Minister, a post he held in the previous cabinet.
Home, considered a key portfolio, was with Nayani Narasimha Reddy during the first term of TRS government. Ali, 66, has been with KCR since the latter floated TRS to revive the movement for separate Telangana state in 2001. The most recognisable Muslim face of TRS, Ali was made Deputy Chief Minister after KCR took over as the first Chief Minister of the new state. There were two deputies to KCR, the other being Kadiyam Srihari, a Dalit leader.