The Telangana Cabinet on Sunday decided to conduct the budget session of Legislative Assembly from February 8 and to announce two more poll ‘guarantees’ of ruling Congress during the session.

Briefing reporters Sunday night after the cabinet meeting, state IT Minister D Sridhar Babu said the Assembly session would be held from February 8 and would begin with the address of Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan.

In different decisions representing the aspirations of the Telangana agitation, the cabinet decided to change the state’s official symbol in a way that it “reflects the people without any trace of monarchy”, state Information and Public Relations Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy said.