Telangana: Telangana is headed for early elections as Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has dissolved the state assembly, nine months before the completion of its term.
Rao, who has been hinting at such a move for weeks, met Governor ESL Narsimhan soon after the cabinet meeting, which lasted for 15 minutes.
Governor Narasimhan has asked the KCR to act as caretaker chief minister.
The state cabinet, which met under the leadership of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao at his camp office at Begumpet at around 1.15 pm, passed a one-line resolution seeking dissolution of the assembly.
Soon after the meeting, KCR drove straight to Raj Bhavan to meet the Governor and submitted the copy of the cabinet resolution.
