It is almost 25 years that a chief minister who can speak in Hindi also has taken his seat in the assembly. And this has come about, thanks to the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into two states on June 2 into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The first chief minister of Telangana state K Chandrasekhar Rao who spoke at length in the Telangana assembly on Thursday spoke in English, Telugu in its Telangana lingo, and in Hindi. The happiest person in the assembly perhaps was the Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen legislator Pasha Quadri who got replies to his questions from KCR in Hindi/Urdu. In the united Andhra Pradesh state, none of the chief ministers from 1990 could speak in Hindi. Marri Channa Reddy ...

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