Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Secunderabad in Telangana G Kishan Reddy, who was inducted into the Union council of ministers headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was made a deputy of none other than party president Amit Shah, who is No. 2 in the National Democratic Alliance government.
Kishan Reddy was allocated the portfolio of home affairs and he will be working directly under Amit Shah, who will be holding the ministry of home affairs as cabinet minister. In a way, it is big honour and respect for Kishan Reddy.
The 59-year old Secunderabad MP was sworn in as minister of state in the Modi cabinet in New Delhi on Thursday evening.
In fact, there was a talk that Kishan Reddy would be made the cabinet minister and another MP from Telangana would get the Minister of State post.
But Modi gave only one cabinet berth to Telangana and may be, in future, he would accommodate another MP in the expansion, if any, in future.
One can say lady luck has favoured Kishan Reddy a lot. He lost the assembly elections to the TRS by a small margin from Amberpet and he never expected that he would contest the parliament elections from Secunderabad.
Even after he was given the MP ticket, the chances of his victory were less, as the TRS went all out to win the seat. But, he made it and won the elections with a huge margin of over 66,000 votes.
And now, he came a minister in the central cabinet and got the plum portfolio!