Telangana’s Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and five other Ministers took charge on Thursday.
Bhatti, who holds the portfolios of finance & planning and energy, assumed the office at 8.21 a.m. amid the chanting of Vedic hymns and blessings of pandits.
Immediately after taking charge, he signed the files related to the release of funds to the two out of six guarantees promised to the people by the Congress in the elections.