{"id":312718,"date":"2019-05-30T09:54:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T09:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312718"},"modified":"2019-05-30T09:54:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T09:54:56","slug":"jagan-mohan-reddy-takes-oath-as-andhra-pradesh-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jagan-mohan-reddy-takes-oath-as-andhra-pradesh-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Jagan Mohan Reddy takes oath as Andhra Pradesh CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312719 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jagan-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/jagan-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/jagan-469x420.jpg 469w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/jagan.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday took oath as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Governor ESL Narasimhan administered him oath of office and secrecy at a public ceremony held at the Indira Gandhi Municipal (IGMC) Stadium in Vijayawada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">YSRCP won 22 out of 25 seats in the recently concluded Lok Sabha Polls and 151 of the 175 seats in the state Assembly, decimating the TDP headed by N Chandrababu Naidu, who became the first chief minister of the state after its bifurcation in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reddy\u2019s mother, his wife Bharati, sister and daughters were among the several people who attended the swearing-in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reddy\u2019s council of ministers is expected to be sworn in on June 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao and DMK president M K Stalin were among the dignitaries who attended the swearing-in ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress president Rahul Gandhi congratulated Reddy on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongratulations to Jagan Reddyji on being sworn in as the CM of Andhra Pradesh. My best wishes to him, his new team of ministers and to all the people of the state,\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday took oath as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. Governor ESL Narasimhan administered him oath of office and secrecy at a public ceremony held at the Indira Gandhi Municipal (IGMC) Stadium in Vijayawada. YSRCP won 22 out of 25 seats in the recently concluded Lok Sabha Polls and 151 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2920,1801,2072,2014],"tags":[1281,7763],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312721,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312718\/revisions\/312721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}