Kodandaram, Amer Ali Khan take oath as MLCs

Hyderabad: Academician M Kodandaram and journalist Amer Ali Khan on Friday took oath as members of the Telangana Legislative Council. Council Chairman, G Sukhender Reddy administered the oath at his chambers in the presence of Revenue Minister P Srinivas Reddy, Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar, and other Congress leaders. After taking oath as MLC, Kodandaram thanked Chief Minister Revanth Reddy for nominating him.

He told media persons that he would work to fulfill the aspirations of those who participated in the Telangana movement and laid down their lives. He said he achieved this position because of the sacrifices of many people. Kodandaram heads the Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS), which had supported the Congress party in the Assembly elections held in November last year while Amer Ali Khan is news editor of ‘Siasat’, a leading Urdu daily.

Kodandaram, a former professor of political science at Osmania University, had played a key role in the Telangana movement as convenor of the Joint Action Committee (JAC), which included TRS (now BRS).