Telangana Minister Vakiti Srihari, who was inducted in the state Cabinet last month, on Monday, July 7, expressed unhappiness over the portfolios allocated to him. Srihari, who was sworn in as a minister along with two others on June 8, is handling Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development, Fisheries, Sports, and Youth Affairs.
He said he was allotted the departments that had been stalled for the last 10 years. “The Animal Husbandry department is in a mess. What do I do with youth affairs? What do I do with sheep?” he asked while talking to reporters. “I don’t know whether it’s my good luck or bad luck,” Srihari remarked.
He referred to the alleged scams in Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development during the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) rule. Earlier, addressing a meeting at the inauguration of a sports school at Karimnagar, the minister made the comments in the presence of Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar. Srihari voiced his unhappiness over the portfolios given to him.
He was sworn in as a Minister along with Vivek Venkataswamy and Adluri Lakshman on June 8. They were allocated portfolios on June 11 after Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy returned from Delhi.
Srihari, who began his political career as a Youth Congress leader, has been associated with Congress for over three decades. In 2023, he was elected to the Assembly from Makthal Assembly constituency in Narayanpet district.