Hyderabad: D enied a ticket in 2008, defeated in 2023, Congress leader and former cricketer Azharuddin was Friday inducted into Telangana CM Revanth Reddy’s cabinet, just ahead of the November 11 Jubilee Hills assembly bypoll.

Azharuddin, or Azhar as he is more commonly known, had unsuccessfully contested the seat in 2023 on a Congress ticket. He lost to Maganti Gopinath of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), whose death earlier this year necessitated the bypoll. The assembly segment falls in central Hyderabad, with over one lakh Muslim voters , of the total four lakh.

With three cabinet berths vacant in the state, Azhar’s was the lone oath administered Friday by Governor Jishnu Dev Varma at the Raj Bhavan here. He took the oath of office in the name of Allah. Show Full Article

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