Cabinet to be sworn in again? at 11:43 PM

Does the state cabinet have to be formed again, in the wake of swearing in of K Rosaiah as the Chief Minister?

While everybody ignored this aspect, senior High Court advocate S Ramachandra Rao said the Cabinet got automatically dissolved soon after the death of ex-Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. Since Rosaiah took the oath as new Chief Minister (there is no such thing as caretaker CM in the Constitution), he has to form a new Cabinet.The decisions taken by the so-called Cabinet or the resolutions passed therein would be null and void, since it would not be treated as official cabinet meeting. “The high command has asked me to continue the old Cabinet,” Rosaiah said on Saturday. But according to Ramachandra Rao, even if the old Cabinet members are retained, they have to take a fresh oath. “I will go by the advice of the Governor, as per the Constitution,” Rosaiah said.

It means, all the Cabinet members will take oath afresh in Rajbhavan, most probably by evening. And the Cabinet meeting will have to ratify its earlier decisions again!